This book attempts to read the character of Mary in the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew alongside the lives of experiences of the Indian surrogate mother living a postcolonial India. Reading Mary through these lenses helps us see this mother and her actions in a more ambivalent light, as a mother whose love is both violent and altruistic.

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Sharon Jacob is Visiting Assistant Professor of New Testament, Luther College, USA

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Introduction 1. Breast, Womb, Empire 2. Desired Mothers, Discounted Mothers: The Postcolonial Surrogate Mother Emerges 3. Exploited Exploiters, Victimized Victimizers: Reading the Matthean Mothers alongside the Contextual Body of the Indian Surrogate Mother in Postcolonial India 4. Surrogacy as Performance of Violent Love: Reading Luke's Magnificat alongside the Bodies of Indian Surrogate Mothers 5. The Synoptic Marys and the Synoptic Hierarchies Conclusion Bibliography