The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction / Rachel P. Mai...
The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction / Rachel P. Mai...
The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction / Rachel P. Maines.
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Baltimore, Md : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N306.708209/1
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English
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xviii, 181 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. The Job Nobody Wanted. The Androcentric Model of Sexuality. Hysteria as a Disease Paradigm. The Evolution of the Technology -- 2. Female Sexuality as Hysterical Pathology. Hysteria in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Hysteria in Renaissance Medicine. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The Fre...
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Baltimore, Md : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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Maryland
Date Published
1999.
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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 penetra...
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The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction / Rachel P. Maines.
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ; new ser., no. 24.
Includes bibliographical references p. [125] - 169 and index.
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N306.708209/1
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0801859417 :
9780801859410 (alk. paper)
0801859417 (alk. paper)
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306.708209
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991005865209702626
