Unmaking Mary : shattering the myth of perfect motherhood
McDonald, Chine2025
Book
For 2000 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 - especialliy 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.
Main title:
Unmaking Mary : shattering the myth of perfect motherhood / Chine McDonald ; foreword by Beth Allison Barr.
Author:
McDonald, Chine, author
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2025.
Collation:
256 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781399814638 (hbk)
Dewey class:
248.8431248.8431 MCD
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3939997