Menstrual Myth Busting

Introduction


Part 1: Menstrual Myth Making


1. The reduction and mystification of the menstrual cycle


2. How did we get here?


Part 2: Where are we now? PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome)


3. What counts as a premenstrual symptom?


4. Mind over matter: the psychologisation of premenstrual changes


5. Snatch- 22: premenstrual changes as simultaneously 'normal' and debilitating


6. The curse: femininity as debility


7. Black box: the unknown/mysterious female reproductive body


8. Conclusion and call to action

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• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres
• Saude das mulheres
• Teoria social
• Sociologia médica

Menstrual health; periods; PMS; Menstrual myths; Premenstrual Syndrome; Gender equality; hysteria; Bad science; Women's health; Critical Realist Discourse Analysis