The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual SatisfactionJHU Press, 15/06/2001 - 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. |
المحتوى
THE JOB NOBODY WANTED | 1 |
The Androcentric Model of Sexuality | 5 |
Hysteria as a Disease Paradigm | 7 |
The Evolution of the Technology | 11 |
FEMALE SEXUALITY AS HYSTERICAL PATHOLOGY | 21 |
Hysteria in Antiquity and the Middle Ages | 22 |
Hysteria in Renaissance Medicine | 26 |
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | 32 |
What Ought to Be and What Wed Like to Believe | 65 |
INVITING THE JUICES DOWNWARD | 67 |
Hydropathy and Hydrotherapy | 72 |
Electrotherapeutics | 82 |
Mechanical Massagers and Vibrators | 89 |
Instrumental Prestige in the Vibratory Operating Room | 93 |
Consumer Purchase of Vibrators after 1900 | 100 |
REVISING THE ANDROCENTRIC MODEL | 111 |
The Freudian Revolution and Its Aftermath | 42 |
MY GOD WHAT DOES SHE WANT? | 48 |
Physicians and the Female Orgasm | 50 |
Masturbation | 56 |
Frigidity and Anorgasmia | 59 |
Female Orgasm in the PostFreudian World | 62 |
The Androcentric Model in Heterosexual Relationships | 114 |
The Vibrator as Technology and Totem | 121 |
Notes | 125 |
Note on Sources | 171 |
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