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The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
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Jonathan Eig · 408 pages
Immersed in radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes, this is the fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
Elizabeth Prioleau · 366 pages
"[A] glossy, steam-heated analysis of temptresses and their tactics." —The New York TimesIn this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world—from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to such lesser-known women as the infamous Violet Gordon Wood
Whores in History: Prostitution in Western Society
Nickie Roberts · 380 pages
'If prostitution is the world's oldest profession, then men writing about it is certainly the second oldest.' It was to retrieve an important part of women's history from the hands of male writers - who have defined prostitution from their own point of view as the client sex - that Nickie Roberts undertook this invigorating blend of social history and sexual politics. In her far-reaching narrative
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
Tina Cassidy · 312 pages
"Starting with a lively, personal introduction in which Tina Cassidy describes her grandmother's, her mother's, and her own experiences of giving birth, readers are taken on an astounding journey into the history of childbirth. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we are born the way
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
Joan Jacobs Brumberg · 370 pages
"When Fasting Girls first appeared in 1988, anorexia nervosa was widely considered a new disease. In fact, most people thought it would go away. Joan Jacobs Brumberg's book changed that perception by demonstrating when and where anorexia nervosa originated and why it has become so "popular" in our time. A classic work that is both a biography of the disease and a sustained inquiry into the cultura
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Therese Oneill · 313 pages
"A scandalously honest guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood. "If Unmentionable does not secure the Pulitzer Prize for Most Fascinating Book Ever, the whole gig is rigged. Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we secretly wanted to know about the Victorian era, but didn't think to ask. Knickers with no crotches? Check. Arsenic as a facial scrub? Check. The infrequency of bathing and t
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore · 480 pages
As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were conside
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
Elizabeth Pisani · 386 pages
"In this breakneck ride through the red-light districts of East Asia and other hotspots in the flamboyant world of AIDS prevention, writer-scientist Elizabeth Pisani dishes on both friends and enemies in the battles where she has been on the front lines for more than a decade." "Pisani's swashbuckling wit takes no prisoners, as she exposes both those who think AIDS can be prevented by preaching ab
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Thomas Maier · 616 pages
Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
Katie Hickman · 384 pages
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English · 369 pages
From the Publisher: A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
David M. Friedman · 363 pages
"Whether enemy or ally, demon or god, the source of satisfaction or the root of all earthly troubles, the penis has forced humanity to wrestle with its enduring mysteries. Here, in an enlightening and entertaining cultural study, is a book that gives context to the central role of the penis in Western civilization.". "In A Mind of Its Own, David M. Friedman shows that the penis is more than a bod
Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin
Mel Gordon · 305 pages
"Weimar Berlin has been immortalized as the nastiest, wickedest, and most debauched place on earth. Novels, plays, and films have told the story of the erotic Mecca and its descent into Nazi rule. Voluptuous Panic, however, is the first book to actually document the madcap world of the sexual metropolis during the interwar years. Mel Gordon's detailed survey explores the lost paradise from the per
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
Debbie Nathan · 297 pages
The true story of the three women behind Sybil, the famous multiple-personality case.
Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War
Pamela D. Toler · 304 pages
"Tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia hotel turned wartime hospital, and the setting for the PBS show Mercy Street"--
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
Eric Berkowitz · 352 pages
Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present
Lisa Appignanesi · 584 pages
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
Michel Foucault · 304 pages
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France · 640 pages
"From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, reli
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
Eleanor Herman · 322 pages
Explores the sexual lives of some of the most beloved and infamous female rulers, including Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and the bastion of virtue, Queen Victoria.
Pox: An American History
Michael Willrich · 427 pages
Chronicles how America's Progressive Era war on smallpox sparked one of the twentieth century's leading civil liberties battles, describing the views and tactics of anti-vaccine advocates who feared an increasingly large government.
The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City---Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages
Catharine Arnold · 384 pages
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 593 pages
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea coming to life, by the aut