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Technology of Orgasm

Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Revised)

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6646-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.06.2001
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Winner of the Herbert Feis Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the AFGAGMAS Biennial Book AwardWinner of the Science Award from the American Foundation for Gender and Genital Medicine

From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries relied on midwives. Later, they substituted the efficiency of mechanical devices, including the electric vibrator, invented in the 1880s. In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780801866463
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-8018-6646-3
  • Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.06.2001
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2001
  • Serie: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 303 g
  • Seiten: 208
  • Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 13 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Rachel P. Maines is a visiting scholar in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University and author of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. THE JOB NOBODY WANTED
Chapter 2. FEMALE SEXUALITY AS HYSTERICAL PATHOLOGY
Chapter 3. "MY GOD, WHAT DOES SHE WANT?"
Chapter 4. "INVITING THE JUICES DOWNWARD"
Chapter 5. REVISING THE ANDROCENTRIC MODEL
Notes
Notes on Sources
Index