Reviews
Thorough, original, and surprising.
Full of wonderful descriptions of the 'job nobody wanted,' including photographs of early vibrators and vaginal electrodes.
Feminist scholarship exactly as it should be: a work that not only illuminates an astonishing bit of herstory, but does so with a neat balance of anger, wit and humor... A wonderful book.
Exhaustively researched... decidedly offbeat.
Here's a provocative history with a chip on its shoulder and a buzz under its skirt... Exhumes startling facts from the underground sexual history of the early twentieth century.
Maines has produced an exhaustive and deliciously savage history of the vibrator-as-sex-aid... This fascinating and exquisitely referenced true story reads like twisted science fiction.
A titillating and often hilarious account of the rise and fall (as it were) of the vibrator as a medical tool for the treatment of hysteria... A book that can delight as well as enlighten.
Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages.
Book Details
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. THE JOB NOBODY WANTED
Chapter 2. FEMALE SEXUALITY AS HYSTERICAL PATHOLOGY
Chapter 3. "MY GOD, WHAT DOES SHE WANT?"
Chapter 4. "INVITING THE JUICES DOWNWARD"
Chapter 5
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. THE JOB NOBODY WANTED
Chapter 2. FEMALE SEXUALITY AS HYSTERICAL PATHOLOGY
Chapter 3. "MY GOD, WHAT DOES SHE WANT?"
Chapter 4. "INVITING THE JUICES DOWNWARD"
Chapter 5. REVISING THE ANDROCENTRIC MODEL
Notes
Notes on Sources
Index