March Book Club - Unmaking Mary: Shattering the myth of perfect motherhood by Chine McDonald

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Hosted by Claire Musters

This month I’m reading… 

Unmaking Mary: Shattering the myth of perfect motherhood

By Chine McDonald (978-1399814638, Hodder & Stoughton)   

This is an unusual book: the description from Chine’s publisher indicates it is part-memoir, part social and theological commentary, focusing on how motherhood has been shaped, negatively (but also positively), by cultural and theological understandings of what it means to be a woman. Chine’s aim with this book is to “un-make the cloak of perfection that surrounds Mary and shames the rest of us”.

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