Reading: Rome, Esther (1986) ‘Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) Examined Through a Feminist Lense’ in Olesen, Virginia L. and Woods, Nancy Fugate Culture, Society and Menstruation,

• “The phrase I hear over and over again is “out of control”, the las thing a woman is brought up to be. She cannot live up to the image of herself as a good woman that she maintains through the rest of her cycle: that is, cheerful, complaint, easing everyone else’s social relations.”