“The Magdalene, like Eve, was brought into existence by the powerful undertow of misogyny in Christianity.
The church venerates two ideals of the feminine - consecrated chastity in the Virgin Mary and regenerate sexuality in the Magdalene. Populous as the Catholic pantheon is, it is nevertheless so impoverished that it cannot conceive of a single female saint independently of her relations (or lack of relations) with men.”
Marina Warner. ‘Alone of all her sex - The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary’.
‘Celestial Body’ vs ‘Absolution’. ©Julie Corcoran