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- ISBN
- 9780801866463
- Book Title
- Technology of Orgasm : Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
- Book Series
- Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Ser.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Psychology, Health & Fitness, History
- Topic
- Women, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Women's Health, History
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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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 ......
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801866464
ISBN-13
9780801866463
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1835453
Product Key Features
Book Title
Technology of Orgasm : Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Women, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Women's Health, History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Psychology, Health & Fitness, History
Book Series
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Full of wonderful descriptions of the 'job nobody wanted,' including photographs of early vibrators and vaginal electrodes., Here's a provocative history with a chip on its shoulder and a buzz under its skirt... Exhumes startling facts from the underground sexual history of the early twentieth century., "Maines has produced an exhaustive and deliciously savage history of the vibrator-as-sex-aid... This fascinating and exquisitely referenced true story reads like twisted science fiction."-- Library Journal, Feminist scholarship exactly as it should be: a work that not only illuminates an astonishing bit of herstory, but does so with a neat balance of anger, wit and humor... A wonderful book., "A titillating and often hilarious account of the rise and fall (as it were) of the vibrator as a medical tool for the treatment of hysteria... A book that can delight as well as enlighten."--Anna Myers, Journal of the American Medical Association, "Here's a provocative history with a chip on its shoulder and a buzz under its skirt... Exhumes startling facts from the underground sexual history of the early twentieth century."--Will Blythe, Mirabella, ""Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages."", "A titillating and often hilarious account of the rise and fall (as it were) of the vibrator as a medical tool for the treatment of hysteria... A book that can delight as well as enlighten." -- Journal of the American Medical Association, "Feminist scholarship exactly as it should be: a work that not only illuminates an astonishing bit of herstory, but does so with a neat balance of anger, wit and humor... A wonderful book."-- L.A. Weekly, Maines has produced an exhaustive and deliciously savage history of the vibrator-as-sex-aid... This fascinating and exquisitely referenced true story reads like twisted science fiction., A titillating and often hilarious account of the rise and fall (as it were) of the vibrator as a medical tool for the treatment of hysteria... A book that can delight as well as enlighten., "Full of wonderful descriptions of the 'job nobody wanted,' including photographs of early vibrators and vaginal electrodes."-- Times (London), "Feminist scholarship exactly as it should be: a work that not only illuminates an astonishing bit of herstory, but does so with a neat balance of anger, wit and humor... A wonderful book." -- Carol Lynn Mithers, L.A. Weekly, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages.
Series Volume Number
24
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
306.708209
Lc Classification Number
Hq29.M35 2001
Table of Content
Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 THE JOB NOBODY WANTED The Androcentric Model of Sexuality Hysteria as a Disease Paradigm The Evolution of the Technology Chapter 2 FEMALE SEXUALITY AS HYSTERICAL PATHOLOGY Hysteria in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Hysteria in Renaissance Medicine The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Freudian Revolution and Its Aftermath Chapter 3 ""MY GOD, WHAT DOES SHE WANT?"" Physicians and the Female Orgasm Masturbation ""Frigidity"" and Anorgasmia Female Orgasm in the Post-Freudian World What Ought to Be, and What We'd Like to Believe Chapter 4 ""INVITING THE JUICES DOWNWARD"" Hydropathy and Hydrotherapy Electrotherapeutics Mechanical Massagers and Vibrators Instrumental Prestige in the Vibratory Operating Room Consumer Purchase of Vibrators after 1900 Chapter 5 REVISING THE ANDROCENTRIC MODEL Orgasmic Treatment in the Practice of Western Medicine The Androcentric Model in Heterosexual Relationships The Vibrator as Technology and Totem Notes Notes on Sources Index
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1999
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