Lunchbox / Soapbox: Monica Dux: The Happy Gestator

Pregnancy is natural, healthy and fun. Sure it is; if you’re lucky. When Melbourne writer and procreator Monica Dux got pregnant she failed to see what all the joy was meant to be about. Pregnancy yoga, orgasmic birth, even the proverbial glow escaped her. Monica grapples with her failure to glow, let alone spark, during her pregnancies and asks, what’s with the contemporary push for pregnant women to be so damn happy?

Lunchbox/Soapbox’s themes are idiosyncratic: from pop-cultural analysis to high cultural criticism; from political grandstanding to personal mischief-making. But they’ll all be thought-provoking. Bring your lunch along to this bite-sized session.

Presenter

Monica Dux

Monica Dux is a Melbourne writer and social commentator. She has published widely on women’s issues and in 2008 she co-authored the book The Great Feminist Denial. She is currently writing a book on pregnancy and motherhood, which will be published by Melbourne University Press in 2013.