'Mean, Moody and Monthly': Women, Medicine and Premenstrual Syndrome in Twentieth-Century Britain. (360G-Wellcome-088434_Z_09_Z)
This project examines how and why medical understandings and social meanings of premenstrual complaints changed in Britain in the twentieth century. Drawing on medical literature, archival sources, media portrayals and popular culture, I trace how the distinct disease concepts of premenstrual tension and premenstrual syndrome evolved and moved into popular idioms, occurred within specified professional, social, political, and cultural contexts, and in response to transformations in medical structures, health practices, and gender roles. I consider how the slippery, contested term premenstrual syndrome , and its pathologising of problematic behaviour, make it a paradigmatic case for testing the much discussed, but little researched, notion of the medicalisation of everyday life.
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Grant Details
| Amount Awarded | 145338 |
| Applicant Surname | Jones |
| Approval Committee | Medical History and Humanities Interview Committee |
| Award Date | 2009-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Financial Year | 2008/09 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Research Fellowship in H&SS |
| Internal ID | 088434/Z/09/Z |
| Lead Applicant | Dr Emma Jones |
| Partnership Value | 145338 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2014-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Recipient Org: Country | United Kingdom |
| Region | North West |
| Sponsor(s) | Dr Flurin Condrau |