The machines of sex research : technology and the politics of identity, 1945-1985 /
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Author / Creator: | Drucker, Donna J. |
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Imprint: | Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2014. |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Language: | English |
Series: | SpringerBriefs in history of science and technology, 2211-4564 SpringerBriefs in history of science and technology. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11079672 |
ISBN: | 9789400770645 9400770642 9789400770638 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 17, 2013). |
Summary: | 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 s. |
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