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The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction

Author: Rachel Maines
Publisher: Baltimore, Md : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology, [new ser., no. 24].
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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.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Maines, Rachel, 1950-
Technology of orgasm.
Baltimore, Md : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
(OCoLC)607092273
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rachel Maines
ISBN: 0801859417 9780801859410
OCLC Number: 39060595
Awards: American Historical Association Herbert Feis Award, 1999.
Description: xviii, 181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The Job Nobody Wanted --
The Androcentric Model of Sexuality --
Hysteria as a Disease Paradigm --
The Evolution of the Technology --
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 --
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 --
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 --
Revising the Androcentric Model --
Orgasmic Treatment in the Practice of Western Medicine --
The Androcentric Model in Heterosexual Relationships --
The Vibrator as Technology and Totem.
Series Title: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology, [new ser., no. 24].
Responsibility: Rachel P. Maines.
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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.

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