The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction
The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female population
Print Book, English, 1999
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1999
Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology, new ser., no. 24, new ser., 24
History
xviii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780801859410, 9780801866463, 0801859417, 0801866464
60176166
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. THE JOB NOBODY WANTEDChapter 2. FEMALE SEXUALITY AS HYSTERICAL PATHOLOGYChapter 3. "MY GOD, WHAT DOES SHE WANT?"Chapter 4. "INVITING THE JUICES DOWNWARD"Chapter 5. REVISING THE ANDROCENTRIC MODELNotesNotes on SourcesIndex