Menstrual health in women's lives / edited by Alice J. Dan and Linda L. Lewis.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1992]

301 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Based on work presented at a 1985 conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research entitled "Menstruation: Clinical Applications and Sociocultural Implications," held at Galveston, Tex.

Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.

Copy 1. Former Women's Health Library shelfmark: N

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Methodological issues in the definition of Premenstrual Syndrome / Ellen S. Mitchell [and others] -- Lifetime psychiatric diagnoses of women seeking treatment for PMS / Anna L. Stout, John F. Steege -- Somatic symptomology in women with premenstrual or menstrual difficulties / Howard I. Baron, Thomas B. MacKenzie, Kimberly Wilcox -- Psychological evaluation and intervention with PMS women / Karen Ostrov, Suzanne Trupin, Diane Essex-Sorlie -- The role of negative life stress and PMS : some preliminary findings / Sarah E. Maddocks, Robert L. Reid -- Rationale and evidence for the role of circadian desynchrony in premenstrual symptoms / Alice J. Dan [and others] -- PMS and progesterone : the ongoing controversy / Linda L. Lewis -- pt. 2. Changes over the menstrual cycle. Psychological and social behavior of couples over a menstrual cycle: "on-the-spot" sampling from everyday life / Judith LeFevre [and others] -- Contextual determinants of menstrual cycle effects in observations of social interactions / Kathryn E. Hood -- Sexual arousability during the menstrual cycle in response to daily sexual stimuli / Elizabeth Henrik, Susan Sanders -- A comparative review of female primate sexuality across the menstrual cycle / Janette Allis, Paula Englander-Golden -- Psychological correlates of normal and abnormal menstrual cycle length / Stephanie A. Sanders, June M. Reinisch -- Menstrual migraine headache / Patricia Solbach -- Premenstrual symptoms and the health-seeking process : models and methods / Nancy F. Woods [and others] -- pt. 3. Menopause. Menopause : a biocultural event / Yewoubdar Beyene -- Black women's responses to menarche and menopause / Beryl Jackson -- Mexican-American women's perceptions of menopause / Jean Ruly Kearns, Victor A. Christopherson -- Differing perspectives of menopause : an attribution theory approach / Catherine DeLorey -- The development of a measure of attitude toward menopause / Cheryl Bowles -- Menstrual pattern changes in middle-aged women / Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, Cheryl M. Jorgenson -- pt. 4. Contextual issues for menstrual health. She was rendered incapacitated by menstrual difficulties : historical perspectives on perceived intellectual and physiological impairment among menstruating women / Susan E. Cayleff -- The impact of menarche on family relationships / Kathleen H. Ulman -- Social factors and menstrual synchrony in a population of nurses / Cynthia A. Graham, William C. McGrew -- Seasonal cyclicity : the effect of daylight/darkness on the menstrual cycle / Effie Graham, Martha Stewart, Penelope Ward -- Can tampon safety be regulated? / Esther Rome, Jill Wolhandler -- Menstruation consciousness raising : a personal and pedagogical process / Emily Erwin Culpepper.