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The Premenstrual Syndrome “Dis-easing” the Female Cycle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Jacquelyn N. Zita
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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.

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Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminism and Science, Part 2 , Spring 1988 , pp. 77 - 99
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Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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