Work After Patriarchy

About the Book

Traditional ways of dividing work by gender are disappearing and new ways of ordering our lives are emerging. Today, women and men engage in various forms of work in the course of a lifetime: work for pay, housework, family care-taking work, volunteer work. Our expansion of work roles holds great promise for our personal development, the well-being of families, and the health of society. We can weave together all forms of work, with determination and imagination, as we open doors for future generations. Our attitudes, values, and world views are changing along with our working patterns. Old ideal images, now limiting and harmful, are losing their power. Opportunities for theological reformation emerge based on a new understanding of human nature, just love, and the order of society. We live in an accelerating time of great change and great consequence. This is a book for such a time.

About the Author

Patricia Budd Kepler is a Presbyterian Minister who lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Thomas, and their dog, Miranda. In addition to writing her Dog Book, she is writing a book on the Changing Landscape of Work. She is leading adult study groups on Religion and Ritual at the Lifelong Learning Center at Tufts University. She has Pastored churches, worked in Educational Ministries of the national Presbyterian Church, been on the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, and served as Interim Chaplain at Tufts University. She holds graduate degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary in Theology and Psychology. She is the mother of three grown sons with families and pets of their own.