The Premenstrual Syndrome “Dis-easing” the Female Cycle
Author:
- Jacquelyn N. ZitaJZJacquelyn N. Zita
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia
- Vol. 3 (1) , 77-99
Abstract
This paper reflects on masculinist biases affecting scientific research on the Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS). Masculinist bias is examined on the level of observation language and in the choice of explanatory frameworks. Such bias is found to be further reinforced by the social construction of “the clinical body” as an object of medical interrogation. Some of the political implications of the medicalization of women's premenstrual changes are also discussed.Keywords
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