This chapter examines how Wiccan and neopagan ritual settings can valorize some gendered identities while constraining others. Its central question is whether inclusive ritualities can also produce new homonormativities or heteronormativities through the very gender scripts they claim to loosen.
The open excerpt confirms the chapter’s placement in the volume and provides the summary block, while the full book remains paywalled. The site keeps the chapter visible because it extends the gender-and-ritual line of inquiry beyond community description into a sharper critique of norm production.
Where the earlier articles often focus on negotiation and belonging, this chapter leans more directly into the problem of how ritual environments normalize identity.