The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual SatisfactionJohns Hopkins University Press, 15/01/1999 - 181 من الصفحات 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. |
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... History of Technology and its subgroup , Women in Technological History ( WITH ) . After one SHOT meeting I was convinced that it was time for graduate study in the his- tory of technology . While I was in graduate school from 1979 to ...
... History 32 , no . 4 ( 1970 ) : 6 . 41. Predictably , these physicians left a wealth of bibliographic evidence of their activities . See Walter S. McClellan , " Collections on the History of Balneology in Saratoga Springs , NY ...
... history of sexuality , but now there is a large and growing literature to guide the scholar . I found John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman's Intimate Matters : A History of Sexuality in America ( 1988 ) and Thomas Laqueur's Mak- ing Sex ...