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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Machines of Sex Research
    sub title: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985
  name:
    name part: Drucker, Donna J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 97 p. 10 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The Machines of Sex Research describes how researchers worldwide integrated technology into studies of human sexuality in the postwar era. The machines they invented made new ways of seeing bodies possible. Some researchers who studied men used machines like penile strain gauges to police “deviant” male sexuality; others used less painful devices like penis-cameras to study women’s sexual responses and map the physiology of their arousal and orgasm. While researchers used the findings from their technological innovations to propose their own views of how people should view their bodies and should manage their sexual lives, their readers interpreted their findings to enact their own visions of sexuality. Drucker shows how the use of machines in sex research provided some of the intellectual underpinnings of the sexual revolution and the women’s and gay rights movements, and in turn how the sex research community developed new machines for investigations that would enhance sexual happiness rather than constrict it. The Machines of Sex Research is a key read for those interested in the intersections between human sexuality, technology, and twentieth-century social movements. Describes the little-known history of the machines of human sex research in the postwar era Shows how researchers worldwide invented and used machines to study human sexuality and the body in new ways, and how they used and improved each other's designs Relates the relationship between the machines of sex research to Cold War sexualities and gender and sexual liberation movements.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: The Machines of Sex Research -- Chapter 2: The Penile Strain Gauge and Aversion Therapy: Measuring and Fixing the Sexual Body -- Chapter 3: The Couples Laboratory and the Penis-Camera: Seeking the Source of Orgasm -- Chapter 4: The Vaginal Photoplethysmograph and Devices for Women: Gauging Female Arousal -- Conclusion: The Future of Human Sex Research Technologies. .
  note: by Donna J. Drucker.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Machinery
  subject:
    topic: Sexual behavior
  subject:
    topic: Sexual psychology
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Sexual Behavior
  subject:
    topic: Machinery and Machine Elements
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 509
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
  identifier: 9789400770645
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7064-5
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    record creation date: 130704
    record change date: 20151204182937.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-7064-5