J. Mortimer Granville

Standard Name: Granville, J. Mortimer

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1877

J. Mortimer Granville contributed five chapters to The Borderlands of Insanity, an attempt to categorize insanity and to identify borderland areas of the mind, where deviance and eccentricity lurked.

Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.

105-6, 266

Early 1880s

The first battery-powered vibrator was patented and put into production; unlike many other doctors, inventor British physician Joseph Mortimer Granville opposed its use for treating women.

Maines, Rachel P. The Technology of Orgasm: ’Hysteria’, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

15, 19

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