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 domina...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Baltimore [u.a.]
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
1999
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| Schriftenreihe: | [Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology / New series]
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 181 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0801859417 |