Michel Foucault described self-policing as the modern replacement for external,
authoritarian, methods of surveillance and social regulation. Today, discipline is instilled …

The positioning of the reproductive body as a site of madness or badness functions to
marginalize women and to medicalize their distress. Taking Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) …

(PMDD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV;
American Psychiatric Association, 2000), this conglomeration of psychological and physical …

The body is central to women's construction of premenstrual change as premenstrual
syndrome (PMS), and to experiences of premenstrual distress. Embodied change, such as …

This study examined the relationship between self‐silencing and premenstrual distress in
women who position themselves as PMS sufferers. A mixed method design, consisting of …

The female reproductive body is positioned as abject, as other, as site of deficiency and
disease, the epitome of the 'monstrous feminine.'Premenstrual change in emotion, behavior …

In a culture obsessed with women's attractiveness and beauty, media messages abound
telling us our corporeal bodies are unacceptable as they are. Women's bodies need …

This paper will examine the way in which premenstrual symptomatology has been
represented and regulated by psychology and psychiatry. It questions the “truths” about …

Women's body shame and body dissatisfaction increase in the premenstrual phase of the
cycle, associated with premenstrual distress. However, the meaning and consequences of …

The majority of research conducted to date on premenstrual distress has focused on
heterosexual women. Drawing on research with lesbian and heterosexual self-defined PMS …