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By Muriel Mellow

in response to interviews with 40 rural Protestant clergy, Mellow argues that female and male clergy problem gendered definitions of labor by way of targeting legal responsibility, context, visibility, and time. She additionally considers how clergy's paintings is formed by means of the agricultural atmosphere, arguing that we needs to give some thought to how paintings is "placed" in addition to gendered.

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