Defining Work

Download or read book Defining Work written by Muriel Mellow and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.