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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
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 Freudian Revolution and Its Aftermath
3 “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
4 “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
5 Revising the Androcentric Model
Orgasmic Treatment in the Practice of Western Medicine
The Androcentric Model in Heterosexual Relationships
The Vibrator as Technology and Totem
Notes
Note on Sources
Index
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