{"product_id":"the-anatomical-venus","title":"The Anatomical Venus","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVenus 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Anatomical Venus imagines the lives of women sketched in asylum notes and pictures others shut inside cabinets of curiosity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helen Ivory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44121167724713,"sku":"9781780374697","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781780374697.jpg?v=1715156910","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-anatomical-venus","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}