SOCI 3P51 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Androcentrism, Vaginal Lubrication, Insomnia
13 Jan 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The job nobody wanted: a short history of sex and technology by rachel. Rachel p. maines, a historian of needlework, is riffling through old copies of woman"s home companion when she spies ads for vibrators 1906. Electric vibrator was invented right after the electric sewing machine and before the electric vacuum cleaner. The invention had nothing to do with liberation. It was originally a labor-saving device to help doctors give their female patients a. The vibrator, maines argues, was used to address hysteria. Symptoms of hysteria" included: anxiety, insomnia, irritability, & vaginal lubrication. She theorizes that one key aspect of the symptoms associated with hysteria may have been unfulfilled sexual arousal. Treatment: doctors/midwives massage" women till they reached. Maines: ""only a handful of the medical authorities who advocated female genital massage as a treatment for hysteria acknowledged that the crisis so produced was an orgasm. ". Androcentric = male centred = sex defined as penetration & male orgasm.
