Rachel Maines

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Full Name	Rachel Maines
Occupation	Academic
Date Of Birth	Jul 8, 1950(1950-07-08)
Age	74
Birthplace	Brookline
Country	United States
Horoscope	Cancer

Rachel Maines Biography

Rachel Maines is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on July 8, 1950 in Brookline, United States. Rachel P. Maines, born July 8, 1950, is an American scholar who specializes in the history and technology of America. She has been a Cornell University Visiting Scientist since 2015. The Herbert Feis Award was awarded to her 1998 book, The Technology of Orgasm. It was also the inspiration of the films Hysteria, and In the Next Room.

Rutgers University Press published Maines’s next book in 2005, Asbestos & Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and The Body at Risk. In Hedonizing Technologies, which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press last year, Maines returned to needlework and textiles. This book documents the evolution of fiber arts as a hobby to an industry. Maines has been a visiting scientist at Cornell University’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2015.

A central claim in Maines’s book—that Victorian physicians routinely used electromechanical vibrators to stimulate female patients to orgasm as a treatment for hysteria—was challenged by Hallie Lieberman and Eric Schatzberg of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Lieberman and Schatzberg failed to find references to this practice in Maines’s sources. In January 2020, Lieberman wrote an op-ed in The New York Times which drew further attention to Maines’ role in promoting the latter widespread myth as fact.

Maines found what she believed to be highly-circumspect ads for vibrators while researching needlework in women’s magazines of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She claimed that the advertisements showed women using electric devices to massage their necks, backs, and the accompanying text called them “thrilling and invigorating”. The device was also described as promising “all the penetrating joys of youth” in the future. Maines said that she thought it was impossible for the device to be what it is in a 1999 interview.

Rachel Maines Net Worth

Rachel Maines is one of the richest Academic from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rachel Maines 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Maines was born in Brookline in Massachusetts. She received her BA degree in classics in 1971 with a focus on ancient science and technology at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1983, she received her PhD in applied social science and history from Carnegie Mellon University. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled Textiles For Defense: Emergency Policy in Textiles and Apparel for the Twentieth century. Her early research was primarily focused on the history and use of needlework and textiles. She was one of the founding members of the Center for the History of American Needlework, Pittsburgh.

The first article she wrote for the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life newsletter was about the history of vibrators. Maines claims that her article led to her losing her position as Clarkson University associate professor in

1986. This was because Clarkson University believed her research would cause them to lose alumni donors and benefactors. She submitted “Socially Camouflaged Technology: The Case of an Electromechanical Vibrator” to Society and Technology three years later. This article was published by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology. The IEEE initially thought that the article was a joke by the editors of the magazine and that Rachel Maines was not involved in the matter. After examining all internal citations and Maines’s background, the IEEE allowed the article to be published by the IEEE in its June 1989 issue. Johns Hopkins University Press published her book- length study on the subject, The Technology of Orgasm in 1998. It was subtitled “Hysteria,” the vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction and won the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association. It inspired Tanya Wexler’s 2011 film Hysteria and Sarah Ruhl’s 2009 play In the Next Room. It was also the basis of Passion & Power, a documentary by Emiko Omori & Wendy Slick in 2007.

Many of Maines’s claims in The Technology of Orgasm have been challenged, notably by classicist Helen King and researchers at the Wellcome Collection. In 2012, King’s article on Maines’s misuse of classical material was awarded the Barbara McManus Prize of the Women’s Classical Caucus.

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