Your Body Was Made For This

Debbie Bateman

ISBN 10: 1553806921 / ISBN 13: 9781553806929

Published by Ronsdale Press, CA, 2023

About this Item

Eating too much, eating not enough, having sex, not having sex, aging parents, grief, drugs, childhood trauma, and the last call of ovaries- a woman' s body at mid-life can get messy. Debbie Bateman' s stories take a clear-eyed look at the largely unexplored private world of a pivotal stage in virtually every woman' s life. These stories are linked not only by the characters, but also by the visceral themes of food, sex, exercise, beauty, and aging. The secret clenching of a fist, the unwinding of a silk scarf, the proud refusal to have breast reconstruction, the women in these stories want full authority over their bodies and their lives.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Your Body Was Made For This
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press, CA
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1553806921
• ISBN 13: 9781553806929
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Eating too much, eating not enough, having sex, not having sex, aging parents, grief, drugs, childhood trauma, and the last call of ovaries— a woman’ s body at mid-life can get messy.

Debbie Bateman’ s stories take a clear-eyed look at the largely unexplored private world of a pivotal stage in virtually every woman’ s life. These stories are linked not only by the characters, but also by the visceral themes of food, sex, exercise, beauty, and aging. The secret clenching of a fist, the unwinding of a silk scarf, the proud refusal to have breast reconstruction, the women in these stories want full authority over their bodies and their lives.

About the Author

Debbie Bateman is a graduate of The Writer’ s Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her short stories "Sundowning" and "The Art of the Scarf" appeared in  You Look Good for Your Age  (2021); "The Point of Failure" appeared in  Qwerty  (winter 2019); and "Secret Workings" was published in  Phoebe  (winter 2020). Now a post-menopausal woman,  Debbie  is too young to be told what she cannot do, and  she's  old enough to know  that most of us  are  a beautiful mess. A proud mother of three sons,  she  lives in Quw'utsun (Cowichan) on Vancouver Island with her husband and soulmate.