The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction / Rachel P. Maines.

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 domina...

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Main Author: Maines, Rachel, 1950- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Edition:Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Series:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ; new ser., no. 24.
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