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Unmaking Mary: Shattering the Myth of Perfect Motherhood

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“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 m...