Women and the Ownership of PMS

Anne E. Figert is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Figert received her Ph.D. from Indiana University at Bloom­ington. She is the author of publications on the relationship of science and sociology as well as women and health.

• I: Setting the Stage; 1: Is PMS Real?: PMS as Scientific and Cultural Artifact; 2: Setting the Stage: The DSM and the American Psychiatric Association; 3: The Narrative: From PMS to PDD to LLPDD; II: The Three Domains of Conflict; 4: Accounting for the Controversy; 5: Inter- and Intraprofessional Boundary Disputes: The Health and Mental Health Domain; 6: Who Defines a Normal and Healthy Woman?: The Woman Domain; 7: The “Truth” about PMS and LLPDD: The Science Domain; III: Settling the Conflict; 8: Who Won? Implications and Conclusions; 9: Afterword: DSM-IV and the Controversy Revisited