The Anatomical Venus, Paperback / softback Book

The Anatomical Venus Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days

  • Information

Description

An Anatomical Venus - which gives this book its title - was an eighteenth-century anatomical wax sculpture of an idealised woman, a heady mix of eroticism, death and biological verisimilitude.

Venus could be opened up and pulled apart by all the men who studied her.

She would give up her secrets the first time of asking.

Helen Ivory’s new collection The Anatomical Venus examines how women have been portrayed as ‘other’; as witches; as hysterics with wandering wombs and as beautiful corpses cast in wax, or on mortuary slabs in TV box sets.

A hanged woman addresses the author of the Malleus Maleficarum, a woman diagnosed with ‘Housewife Psychosis’ recounts her dreams to Freud, and a sex robot has the ear of her keeper.

The Anatomical Venus imagines the lives of women sketched in asylum notes and pictures others shut inside cabinets of curiosity.

Information

Other Formats

Save 14%

£10.99

£9.42

In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days

Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist

Information