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By Rachel P. Maines. 181 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. $22. ISBN 0-8018-5941-7.

In the course of preparing a scholarly documentation of needlework in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Rachel P. Maines, the author of this small and surprising book, noticed a variety of advertisements for vibrators. After graduate school, as an assistant professor at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, she investigated the use and meaning of vibrators, consulting such sources as the Bakken Library of Electricity in Life, in Minneapolis, which had 11 "musculo-skeletal relaxation devices" in its collection. Based on over 500 sources (documented in 24 pages of notes), this book is the fruit of a curious, serendipitous discovery . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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