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Defining Work: Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural Clergy
ISBN: 9780773560208
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Rural clergy; Sex role in the work environment;

For rural clergy, the lines between private life and professional life can blur. Their offices are often in their homes, parishioners are also neighbours, and professional duties are intertwined with emotional caregiving and volunteer activity. In a society that defines work as paid, public, and intellectual the ambiguity inherent in the life of the rural clergy poses unique challenges. Muriel Mellow considers how men and women in this occupational group conceptualize "work" in the context of their unique circumstances and shows how their experience raises questions for feminist theories of work.

Muriel Mellow is assistant professor, sociology, University of Lethbridge.Muriel Mellow is assistant professor, sociology, University of Lethbridge.