Defining Work: Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural ClergyFor 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. |
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| 3 | |
2 Conceptualizing Work | 19 |
Methodology and Respondents | 48 |
An Essential Component of the Profession | 60 |
5 Defining Work in Accountable Ways | 80 |
6 Defining Emotional Boundaries | 106 |
7 Negotiating the Boundary between Public and Private | 127 |
8 Conclusion | 153 |
Methodological Notes | 167 |
Coding Categories | 172 |
Notes | 177 |
Bibliography | 183 |
Index | 197 |
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Página 119 - To say that an organization, or any other analytic unit, is gendered means that advantage and disadvantage, exploitation and control, action and emotion, meaning and identity, are patterned through and in terms of a distinction between male and female, masculine and feminine.
Página 156 - masculinities constructed in ways that realize the patriarchal dividend, without the tensions or risks of being the frontline troops of patriarchy, are complicit in this sense'.
Página 26 - If we started with housework as a basis, the categories of "work" and "leisure" would never emerge. And indeed, it is hard to image how, using housework as our basic framework, it would be possible to make "work" and "leisure" observable. The social organization of the roles of housewife, mother, and wife does not conform to the divisions between being at work and not being at work. Even the concept of housework as work leaves what we do as mothers without a conceptual home. Traditionally in sociology,...
Página 52 - The precise wording of the questions, and the order in which they were posed was: Now let's get off into another subject-the United States Supreme Court.
Página 80 - Professionals, in contrast to members of other occupations, claim and are often accorded complete autonomy in their work. Since they are presumed to be the only judges of how good their work is, no layman or other outsider can make any judgment of what they do.
Página 28 - In the shantytown, there is a sharp division between the public world of work and the private world of the family, and men try so far as possible to confine their wives to the latter.
Página 41 - have a more difficult time than people in other occupations claiming private space for themselves away from the demands of the church job
Página 27 - Conventionally, leisure is defined as activities "which people pursue for pleasure and which are not a necessary part of their business, employment or domestic management obligations
Página 63 - Daniels (1987, 409) points out that people commonly have difficulty conceptualizing "the warm and caring aspects of the construction and maintenance of interpersonal relations
Página 44 - ... legitimate' excuse of a husband or children to use in keeping over-demanding parishioners at bay" (Carroll, Hargrove, and Lummis 1983, 191).
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Defining Work: Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural Clergy Defining Work: Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural Clergy, Muriel Mellow desLibris: Books collection |
| Autor | Muriel Mellow |
| Editor | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0773560203, 9780773560208 |
| Largo | 216 páginas |
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