Your Body Was Made for This
Your Body Was Made for This
Alice Meems
, Heather Norris
, Melissa Poremba
, Mary Therrien
, Shannon Leclerc
, Agnes Marshall
, Lauren Ridgewell
, Barry Kazimer
, cassandra schiemann
, Joan Clare
, Janice Hutchinson
, Anne Baldo
, Catherine Westerberg
, Sarah Schwartz
, P. Thompson
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Joshua Lewis
, Marilyn Stanley
, Angeline Schellenberg
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Dawn Macdonald
, Suzanne Brooks
, Emma Parker
, Jude Castillo
, Wiley Ho
, Tyra Antle
, Margaret Palmer
, Noelle Walsh
, Sandra Perry
, Linda Leitch
, Hoda Montazeri
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Cathalynn Labonte-Smith
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Janice B Knickle
, Carol Anne Turner
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Susan Jang
, Ariane Béland
, Teree Hokanson
, Andrea Gillespie
, Deb Philippon
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Janai Phillips
, Rhona Brinkman
, Deana Bueley
, Elaine Baptie
, Chris Carvalho
, Dani Kat
, Claudie Léveillé
, Connie Bennett
, Claire Gear
, Cristina Pejkovic
, Sunshine Gudlaugson
, Trish Bowering
, Amber Beardwood
, Blake Patterson
, Ms Bookmarked
, Astrid Blodgett
, Diane Normandin
, Lynn Bechtel
, Janet Miller
, Jennifer Morse
, Karen Kendrick
, Christine Lion
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Benita Hartwell
, Shonna Froebel
, Randi Ann Doll
, Carl Scott
, Mary Campbell
, Rachel Edmonds
, Janet Meisner
, Paula Adam
, Nancy Daoust
, Joe Mitchell
, Mary Danieli
, Michelle Wong
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, C. Ray
, Derek Davidson
, Janice Cournoyer
, Shannon Lee
, M M English
, Nancy Reid
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Kim Cappellina
, Ken Gilmour
, Sara Conway
, Kym Marsh
, Karen Nordrum
, Alex Henderson
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Prabh Toor
, Lisa Mallia
, Jessica Gilbert
, Leslie Vermeer
, Virginia Reddin
editor@49thShelf.com
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.
