Flexible Working

Why They Took Our Dustbins Away

Linda Isiorho

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9798385291311
  9798385291328
• eBook ISBN:
  9798385291335
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Women in Fiction
• Index: Literature

This book has been skillfully crafted. Linda Isiorho interviewed a number of women, many of whom were either part-time, supporting their full-time stipendiary vicar husbands, or, as they were known, non-stipendiary ministers. In the foreword, Isiorho’s husband, David Isiorho, has set out the context for Flexible Working which was this in-depth research into the deployment of female priests in the Church of England after twenty years of their presbyteral status. People like Rosy, whose story is told in this novel, refused to have a negative in their title and called themselves self-supporting ministers, following the example of St. Paul himself who made tents for a living if he needed money. David Isiorho notes that none of the women Linda interviewed have had an easy journey, although for some with the right connections, life had become smoother over the years. These women ranged from those who were passionate and articulate about their vocation, reinventing themselves to fulfill their calling, and giving up a great deal in the process, to those who fitted into the privileged classes with all the attendant benefits. However, Rosy, the hero of this story, was to forge her way through the male mechanisms of a male church.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Chapter 26
• Chapter 27
• Chapter 28
• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30