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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].
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 Find more information about:
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.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Table of contents Publisher description

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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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