{"product_id":"the-technology-of-orgasm","title":"The Technology of Orgasm","description":"\u003cp\u003eBaltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. First edition (stated). Octavo in black DJ, color illus to front DJ, xviii, 181 pages, b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 22 cm. Extremely gentle rubbing to spine foot and corners, faint soiling to fore-edges and DJ, exceedingly mild rubbing to DJ corners, else near fine(+) in near fine(+) DJ. in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0801859417\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMovie card for same book included. 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. Contents: The Job Nobody Wanted -- The Androcentric Model of Sexuality -- Hysteria as a Disease Paradigm -- The Evolution of the Technology -- Female Sexuality as Hysterical Pathology -- Hysteria in Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Hysteria in Renaissance Medicine -- The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- The Freudian Revolution and Its Aftermath -- My God, What Does She Want? -- Physicians and the Female Orgasm -- Masturbation -- Frigidity and Anorgasmia -- Female Orgasm in the Post-Freudian World -- What Ought to Be, and What We'd Like to Believe -- Inviting the Juices Downward -- Hydropathy and Hydrotherapy -- Electrotherapeutics -- Mechanical Massagers and Vibrators -- Instrumental Prestige in the Vibratory Operating Room -- Consumer Purchase of Vibrators after 1900 -- Revising the Androcentric Model -- Orgasmic Treatment in the Practice of Western Medicine -- The Androcentric Model in Heterosexual Relationships -- The Vibrator as Technology and Totem. Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology, [new series, no. 24]. Women -- Sexual behavior -- History.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maines, Rachel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46055903822082,"sku":"92357.0","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/holder_4_47b11227-6814-4110-9364-48f6e9b636c9.jpg?v=1744088897","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/the-technology-of-orgasm","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}