The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual SatisfactionJohns Hopkins University Press, 15/06/2001 - 208 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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... sources that convinced me I was on solid historical ground . The libraries of Cornell University , especially the History of Science collection , have proved invaluable , as have the collections of the Na- tional Library of Medicine ...
... sources on the 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 ... sources 172 NOTE ON SOURCES.
... sources on hydrotherapy and a great many popular histories . I recommend Susan Cayleff's dissertation " Wash and Be Healed : The Nineteenth - Century Water - Cure Movement , 1840-1900 " ( 1983 ) ; Jane Donegan's Hydropathic Highway to ...