The Anatomical Venus by Helen Ivory #Translated and from high-stakes games of

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But appearances are deceptive where this Slakki is concerned

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This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community

supportive and hugely effective social poet

The Anatomical Venus by Helen Ivory #Translated and from high-stakes games ofAn 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 Ivorys new collection The Anatomical Venus examines how women have been portrayed as other; as witches; as hysterics with