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Unmaking Mary: Shattering the Myth of Perfect Motherhood

Unmaking Mary: Shattering the Myth of Perfect Motherhood

McDonald, Chine

Hardcover

Bible StudiesChristian LivingGeneral Parenting

Publisher Price: $22.99

ISBN10: 139981463X
ISBN13: 9781399814638
Publisher: Hodder Faith
Published: Jul 8 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.88 Depth: 8.69
Language: English
Astute, smart, witty and brave. A radical, deeply thoughtful and essential intervention
Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence

A deeply valuable reflection on motherhood
Rowan Williams

For two thousand years, the Virgin Mary has been depicted throughout art, literature and culture as symbolising the perfect mother: chaste, beautiful, meek, mild and white. These supposed virtues and symbols have penetrated not just Christianity but wider popular culture; and contributed to harmful views about motherhood and what it is to be a woman.

In this part-memoir, part social and theological commentary, Chine McDonald deconstructs the myth of perfect motherhood and shines a light on the dark side of parenting. From birth trauma to post-natal depression, from infertility to the mental load, the motherhood penalty and pressures on women to be and have it all - especially in the church - this book attempts to liberate motherhood from the chains in which it has been placed, reconstructing a more authentic, grace-filled way forward for the most important job in the world.

Unmaking Mary will include a foreword written by Beth Allison Barr, author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood.

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