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This article, which takes on a Butlerian perspective of the performativity of norms, examines an important modality of agency: the process by which norms are consolidated. Through the study of a religious community, the Excellence association, we will see that the ‘production of space’ during the meetings between members of the organization contributes to the production of domination and gender oppression. This space, within which social requirements of piety are more stringent than those that apply in daily spaces, promotes the co-construction of gendered and pious subjects. The women who volunteer as members of this association thus deploy a paradoxical agency that implies their active subjection to gender norms rather than the subversion of those norms.