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According to Wikipedia, Rachel Pearl Maines is an American scholar specializing in the history of technology. Since 2015 she has been a visiting scientist at Cornell University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her book The Technology of Orgasm won the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award. The book was also the inspiration for the film Hysteria and the play In the Next Room. However, one of the main claims of the book has been debunked as false.

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Rachel Maines's Published Works

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The Technology of Orgasm (1998) (68)
The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot—Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy (Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2020, 305+x pp.) (2023) (42)
Love + Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships (Levy, D.; 2007) [Book Review] (2008) (40)
Asbestos and fire : technological trade-offs and the body at risk (2005) (35)
Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure (2009) (34)
:Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror (2002) (32)
A Disciplined Geography: Aviation, Science, and the Cold War in Northern Canada, 1945–1960 (2009) (28)
Socially camouflaged technologies: the case of the electromechanical vibrator (1989) (26)
The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810–1860. By Jonathan Prude. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xvii, 364. $34.50 (1984) (21)
The Asbestos Litigation Master Narrative: Building Codes, Engineering Standards, and “Retroactive Inculpation” (2012) (2)
Rocky Landscape with Cheese Factory: The Stone Mills Union of Lafargeville, New York, 1896-1925 (2009) (2)
Asbestos and Fire (2013) (1)
Cutting a Fashionable Fit: Dressmakers' Drafting Systems in the United States. By Claudia B. Kidwell. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 163. $5.50 (1981) (1)
Engineering Standards as Collaborative Projects: Asbestos in the Table of Clearances (2011) (1)
The Machine in the Bedroom The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction. By (2000) (1)
Reviews of Books:Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation Thomas Laqueur (2004) (1)
The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (review) (2004) (1)
Thomas Laqueur. Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. New York: Zone Books. 2003. Pp. 501. $34.00 (2004) (1)
Engineering as Law: Injury Epidemiology and Consensus Codes (2010) (0)
Clothing: a Global History: Or, The Imperialists' New Clothes (review) (2010) (0)
From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play. By Carroll Pursell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. ix + 216 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Paper, $28.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1650-2. (2016) (0)
Jean Stengers;, Anne Van Neck.Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror. Translated by, Kathryn A. Hoffmann. ix + 239 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave, 2001. $24.95. (2002) (0)
Garbage in the Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment, 1880–1980. ByMartin V. Melosi (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.xvi + 268 pp. $18.50) (1983) (0)
4. Mass Destruction by Fire: Asbestos in World War II (2020) (0)
'Stinks and Bangs': Amateur Science and Gender in Twentieth-Century Living Spaces (2014) (0)
6. The Asbestos Tort Conflagration (2020) (0)
Landmarks in Mechanical Engineering (review) (1998) (0)
Cold War kitchen: Americanization, technology and European users (2010) (0)
Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor (review) (2015) (0)
Reviews of Books:Nymphomania: A History Carol Groneman (2002) (0)
Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for Survival (review) (2010) (0)
In This Issue (2010) (0)
Freud and the steam-powered vibrator (2018) (0)
My Fair Ladies [Book Review] (2020) (0)
944: Treatment of “Hysteria” in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2006) (0)
Landmarks in Mechanical Engineering (1998) (0)
Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty. By Robert Friedel (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 1994. xiv plus 288pp. $23.00/USA, $29.99/Canada) (1995) (0)
5. Schools, Homes, and Workplaces: Fire Prevention in the Postwar Built Environment (2020) (0)
Women, Gender, and Technology (review) (2007) (0)
Asbestos in 20th Century Building Codes: Can Compliance Be Negligence? (2016) (0)
The Muses' Stepchildren: American Folk Artists and Their Scholars (1981) (0)
APPENDIX A. SOME ASBESTOS END-USES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1850–1990 (2020) (0)
Wartime Allocation of Textile and Apparel Resources: Emergency Policy in the Twentieth Century (1985) (0)
Stinks and Bangs: Amateur Science and Gender in 20th Century Living Spaces (2013) (0)
Book Review:Cleavage: Technology, Controversy, and the Ironies of the Man-Made Breast Nora Jacobson (2001) (0)
Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science and Technology (review) (2012) (0)
American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports (review) (2007) (0)
Falling for Science: Objects in Mind (review) (2009) (0)
Socks at War: American Hand Knitters and Military Footwear Production for the World Wars (2019) (0)
1. The Asbestos Technology Decision Environment (2020) (0)
Nymphomania: a history. [Review of: Groneman, C. Nymphomania: a history. New York: Norton, 2000]. (2002) (0)
(106–110), Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s national-dress campaign in the 1920s (113–117), Christian missions in the Paciac Islands (83–102), and black nationalist South Africans during the second decade of the twenti- (2010) (0)
Silk City: Studies on the Paterson Silk Industry, 1860–1940. Edited by B. Scranton Philip. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1985. Pp. 176. $19.95 (1986) (0)
The Evolution of the Potholder from Technology to Popular Art (1985) (0)
Sex toys and aids (2015) (0)
Twenty-Nine Thirty-Seconds or Fight: Goal Conflict and Reinforcement in U.S. Cotton Policy, 1933-1946 (1986) (0)
Clothing: a Global History: Or, The Imperialists' New Clothes. By Robert Ross (Cambridge, Polity, 2008) 221 pp. $64.95 cloth $24.95 paper (2010) (0)
2. Asbestos before 1880: From Natural Wonder to Industrial Materia (2020) (0)
APPENDIX B. SELECTED LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS SPECIFYING ASBESTOS IN CODES, STANDARDS, OR RECOMMENDATIONS, 1880–1980 (2020) (0)

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