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More about Monica ⟶ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe7cb386056b74a44d37707/1612403974760-CIY8KT8NTL30B7BU3BFM/LapsedCover.jpg Home - For anyone who grew up Catholic - and their support team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe7cb386056b74a44d37707/1612405106974-WJD69S3WX563UJ3COG8V/LapsedCover.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe7cb386056b74a44d37707/1609026368161-F6Y2G9M42R8WIYMJLTYY/mothermorphosis-paperback-softback20201212-4-ft3dsv.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe7cb386056b74a44d37707/1609026368148-B505SO1HPRRSP2D3RJSB/things-i-didnt-expect-when-i-was-expecting-paperback-softback20201212-4-16271jy.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe7cb386056b74a44d37707/1609026368138-BE4M0TO6YONLAAW4FVHY/the-great-feminist-denial-paperback-softback20201212-4-nltzoz.jpeg Home https://www.monicadux.com.au/about daily 0.75 2024-08-14 https://www.monicadux.com.au/works daily 0.75 2024-08-14 https://www.monicadux.com.au/works/lapsed monthly 0.5 2021-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe7cb386056b74a44d37707/1612404131424-3MNQGAXWRTU0Y82LIKX5/LapsedCover.jpg Works - Lapsed - For anyone who grew up Catholic - and their support team. From devout ten-year-old performing the part of Jesus in a primary school play to blaspheming, undergraduate atheist, Monica Dux and her attitude to the Catholic Church changed profoundly over a decade. Eventually, she calmed down and was just ‘lapsed’. With the wry humour of David Sedaris and the razor-sharp observations of Nora Ephron, Lapsed is the story of one woman’s attempt to exorcise her religious upbringing, and to answer the question, is Catholicism like a blood group and, if so, is it possible to get a total transfusion? ‘A frank, funny and heartfelt exorcism of our need to believe in a man in the sky.’ – SHAUN MICALLEF ‘Enlightening, forensic and laugh-out-loud funny.’ – JANE CARO Order the book ⟶ Order the audiobook ⟶ You can purchase Monica’s other books here. https://www.monicadux.com.au/works/the-great-feminist-denial monthly 0.5 2020-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe7cb386056b74a44d37707/1609026368138-BE4M0TO6YONLAAW4FVHY/the-great-feminist-denial-paperback-softback20201212-4-nltzoz.jpeg Works - The Great Feminist Denial - Feminism has been a bad, bad girl. Or so we are constantly told. All around us, feminism is getting the blame for women not having babies. For the stress of working mothers. And for the rise of ‘raunch culture’. It seems that the final feminist destination is a sordid, selfish mess. What happened? Why has feminism gone from being a movement that was there to help women, to one that is held responsible for much of what ails them? And what does feminism really stand for? In this refreshing book, Monica Dux and Zora Simic – who do call themselves feminists – examine the popular debates in which feminism stands accused. They show how this Great Feminist Denial is suppressing genuine debate about the problems that women face, and preventing real feminism from providing the solutions it still has to offer. "...beneath its critique of feminism's image problem, The Great Feminist Denial raises a deeper question, about the whittling down of a very complex movement to reductive catch phrases and recycled arguments." RACHEL HILLS — THE AGE “Required reading.” VOGUE “Brilliant… I read The Great Feminist Denial with glee – it warmed my tired feminist heart.” CHRIS GORDON Order the book ⟶ You can purchase Monica’s other books here. https://www.monicadux.com.au/works/things-i-didnt-expect monthly 0.5 2020-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe7cb386056b74a44d37707/1609026368148-B505SO1HPRRSP2D3RJSB/things-i-didnt-expect-when-i-was-expecting-paperback-softback20201212-4-16271jy.jpeg Works - Things I Didn't Expect (when I was expecting) - One woman's journey to make sense of the absurdities, the harsh realities, the myths and the downright lies about making babies. Pregnancy is natural, healthy and fun, right? Sure it is, if you're lucky. For others, it's an adventure in physical discomfort, unachievable ideals, kooky classes and meddling experts. ‘This isn’t just a book for every woman who’s ever had a baby, but any reader who has a pulse. When I wasn’t screaming from horror, I was howling with laughter. Fist-bumpingly smart and spleen-damagingly funny, Monica Dux is our answer to Caitlin Moran.’ – BENJAMIN LAW ‘There are two kinds of pregnant women. Those who bloom, and the normal kind. Read it in a spirit of solidarity—or a spasm of schadenfreude— Dux’s irreverent, informed and in-your-hoohah-funny take on postfeminist pregnancy is a Kegel exercise of the spirit’. – SUSAN MAUSHART ‘A hilarious, informed and insightful autobiographical account of motherhood. In the event of a call for the Voice of my generation of mothers, I nominate Monica Dux.’ – CORDELIA FINE ‘Very funny in a snort-out-loud kind of way…Importantly, it contributes to much-needed open discussion of pregnancy and birth, plus humour is a great way to deal with the emotional and physical upheaval that comes with creating humans. Dux’s strong opinions may cause controversy. I didn’t always agree with it, but I definitely enjoyed reading it.’ – BOOKS + PUBLISHING, DECEMBER 2012. Order the book ⟶ You can purchase Monica’s other books here. https://www.monicadux.com.au/works/mothermorphosis monthly 0.5 2020-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe7cb386056b74a44d37707/1609026368161-F6Y2G9M42R8WIYMJLTYY/mothermorphosis-paperback-softback20201212-4-ft3dsv.jpeg Works - Mothermorphosis - Beaming with joy. A natural mother. Worst Mother. Best mother. Guilt-ridden. Incompetent. Exhausted. In Mothermorphosis, some of Australia's most talented writers and storytellers share their own experiences of motherhood. In telling their stories they articulate the complex internal conflicts, the exhilaration and the absurdity of the transformation that takes place when we become mothers. We read about the yearning for a child, the private and public expressions of maternal love, the questioning, uncertainty and unexpected delight, as well as unfathomable loss. Mothermorphosis reveals that there is no 'right' version of this epic experience and no single tale that could ever speak for all mothers. Yet it is in reading about other women's experiences—the hard bits, the joyous bits and even the ridiculous bits—that we can become more compassionate, not just to other mothers but hopefully to ourselves. Order the book ⟶ You can purchase Monica’s other books here.