The Sexual Economies of Clericalism: Women Religious and Gendered Violence in the Catholic Church

As the sexual abuse crisis continues to plague Catholic Church across world, focus on men as both perpetrators of violence, and victims child has been at forefront media academic analysis. However, evidence from public inquiries, criminal investigations, research survivor testaments identifies women religious physical violence against children clerical violence. This indicates that religious, colloquially known nuns, belong a very unsettled landscape in gender politics they have male abuse. article considers these two contested realities by examining analysing studies inquiries. We found nuns were not only children, but also engaged herding into pathways organised paedophiles, particularly children’s homes orphanages where considered commodities. Simultaneously, recently become major concern for communities wider Church. argue bringing together through new discourse—the economies clericalism—new understandings agency can be explored theoretical methodological framework.