The Machines of Sex Research

Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985

Bibliographic Data

ID19910340
AuthorsDonna J Drucker (0000-0001-6688-8127, Technische Universität Darmstadt, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages97
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe machines of sex research (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSpringer Netherlands (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1007/978-94-007-7064-5
OpenAlexW4234303968
ISBN9789400770645
Open LibraryOL31012851M
LanguageEN
Citations received6

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

Engineering ethics · Human sexuality · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Penis · physiology · Physiology · Research · Science · Sex customs · Sexology · Sexual behavior · Technological innovations · Vagina

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