Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and the Myth of the Irrational Female
(2020)
Book Chapter
King, S. (2020). Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and the Myth of the Irrational Female. In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies (287-302). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_23
King’s chapter begins by describing the historical context of ‘premenstrual’ symptoms, which were first formally described in 1931. She then questions the prioritization of mood-based symptoms in the diagnostic criteria for Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS... Read More about Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and the Myth of the Irrational Female.