Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 THE JOB NOBODY WANTED
The Androcentric Model of Sexuality
Hysteria as a Disease Paradigm
The Evolution of the Technology
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Notes on Sources
Index
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