The Anatomical Venus
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The Anatomical Venus

  1. 62 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Anatomical Venus

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781780374697
eBook ISBN
9781780374703
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Epigraph
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Sorceress to Live
  5. All the Suckling Imps
  6. The Kept House
  7. Curse
  8. Wunderkammer with Weighing Scales and Hospital Bed
  9. Beggar Dark
  10. Wunderkammer with Black Coffee and Ghost Moth
  11. Wunderkammer with Escher Stairs and Cheshire Cat
  12. Housewife Psychosis
  13. The Fainting Room
  14. The Little Venus
  15. Cunning
  16. Dissecting Venus
  17. Stripped
  18. Baba Yaga No Longer Reads the News
  19. Poppet
  20. By Water
  21. Female Casebook 6
  22. Chair
  23. The Parlour Maid
  24. Labourerā€™s Wife
  25. The Elevation
  26. Walking Backwards
  27. Falling
  28. Farmerā€™s Wife
  29. Stillborn
  30. The Boatmanā€™s Wife
  31. The Housekeeper
  32. Wunderkammer with Needle Girl and Tool Kit
  33. The Dollsā€™ House Mysteries
  34. Doll Hospital at the Top of the Hill
  35. Wunderkammer with St Dymphna Tea Towel
  36. The Reformed Woman
  37. Wunderkammer with Homestead and Aeolian Harp
  38. Ordeal by ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contents
  7. Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Sorceress to Live
  8. All the Suckling Imps
  9. The Kept House
  10. Curse
  11. Wunderkammer with Weighing Scales and Hospital Bed
  12. Beggar Dark
  13. Wunderkammer with Black Coffee and Ghost Moth
  14. Wunderkammer with Escher Stairs and Cheshire Cat
  15. Housewife Psychosis:
  16. The Fainting Room
  17. The Little Venus
  18. Cunning
  19. Dissecting Venus
  20. Stripped
  21. Baba Yaga No Longer Reads the News
  22. Poppet
  23. By Water
  24. Female Casebook 6
  25. Chair
  26. The Parlour Maid
  27. Labourerā€™s Wife
  28. The Elevation
  29. Walking Backwards
  30. Falling
  31. Farmerā€™s Wife
  32. Stillborn
  33. The Boatmanā€™s Wife
  34. The Housekeeper
  35. Wunderkammer with Needle Girl and Tool Kit
  36. The Dollsā€™ House Mysteries
  37. Doll Hospital at the Top of the Hill
  38. Wunderkammer with St Dymphna Tea Towel
  39. The Reformed Woman
  40. Wunderkammer with Homestead and Aeolian Harp
  41. Ordeal by Water
  42. Wunderkammer with Ophelia and Hospital Bath
  43. Wunderkammer with Glass Plate Photograph
  44. Besom
  45. Selling the Wind
  46. The Hanged Woman Addresses The Reverend Heinrich Kramer
  47. Bitch
  48. Scoldā€™s Bridle
  49. Hellish Nell
  50. Six Signs You Might Be a Slattern
  51. The Goddess Gets Her Close-Up
  52. Pygmalion
  53. Anger in Ladies &c
  54. Vessel
  55. NOTES
  56. About the Author
  57. Copyright