An edition of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (1998)

The Technology of Orgasm

“Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction

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An edition of The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (1998)

The Technology of Orgasm

“Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction

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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 penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female population.

This male-centered definition of satisfying and healthy coitus shaped not only the development of concepts of female sexual pathology but also the instrumentation designed to cope with them.

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The Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Pages
181

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History, Female orgasm, Vibrators, Anorgasmy, Masturbation, Vibrators (Massage), Sexual behavior, Women, Orgasm, New York Times reviewed, Women, sexual behavior, Female Genitalia, Masturbation--history, Genitalia, female, Sexual behavior--history, Women--sexual behavior--history, Female orgasm--history, Anorgasmy--history, Vibrators--history, Hq29 .m35 2001, 612.62
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The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
March 1, 2001, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
2001, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The technology of orgasm: "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction
1999, The Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
Cover of: The Technology of Orgasm
The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction
1998, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-169) and index.

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Baltimore, Md
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology ;

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.7/082/09
Library of Congress
HQ29 .M35 1998, HQ29.M35 1998

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Pagination
xviii, 181 p. :
Number of pages
181

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OL360169M
Internet Archive
technologyoforga0000main_n8e3
ISBN 10
0801859417
ISBN 13
9780801859410
LCCN
98020213
OCLC/WorldCat
39060595, 60176166
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221343
Goodreads
847357

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"In 1653 Pieter van Foreest, called Alemarianus Petrus Forestus, published a medical compendium titled Observationem et Curationem Medicinalium ac Chirurgicarum Opera Omnia, with a chapter on the diseases of women."

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