Defining Work

Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural Clergy

By Muriel Mellow
Categories: Religious Studies
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Hardcover : 9780773531376, 216 pages, November 2006
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773560208, 216 pages, November 2006
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780773577459, 216 pages, November 2006

Description

Based on interviews with forty rural Protestant clergy, Mellow argues that male and female clergy challenge gendered definitions of work by focusing on obligation, context, visibility, and time. She also considers how clergy's work is shaped by the rural setting, arguing that we must consider how work is "placed" as well as gendered.