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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... discussion of an 1855 work by Catherine Beecher , remarks on Beecher's apparent belief that women of her time were sick " because they were women . Most of the ailments that she records - pelvic disorders , sick headaches , general ...
... discuss the apparent “ epidemic " of hysteria in the nineteenth century and describe it as a " new disease ... discussion does not include the omission of female orgasm from the normative medical model of the nineteenth century ...
... Discussion of the Physiologic Basis and Therapeutic Potency of Mechano - vital Vibration , to Which Is Added a Dictionary of Diseases with Suggestions as to the Technic of Vibratory Therapeutics ( Chicago : Ouellette Press , 1906 ) , 56 ...