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The Machines of Sex Research - Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985 (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
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The Machines of Sex Research - Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985 (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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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.
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