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PMS is making you crazy!
PMS: Premenstrual Syndrome
Berger
1984
I was ready to make fun of this book and then I remembered that no one really had identified PMS as a real condition back in the day, so I think this book is one of the first out there, at least for teenagers. However, the real issue is what is something this old doing in a current teen nonfiction collection? Think this helps? Also, take a look at the text toward the bottom of the post. I am sure all of you will appreciate the discussion of the reliability and stability of women in “responsible” jobs.
As an aside, the women this book was written for are now heading into menopause.
Just getting old and bitter,
Mary
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Wouldn’t be wonderful if all of these “awful” books could be sold off at a library booksale to benefit libraries across the country (if something like that was possible). They may be awful in a current collection but what wonderful history some of these books are.
Sally becomes “clumsy” when she has PMS? Sorry, what? Now we become uncoordinated one week a month? Maybe we shouldn’t be allowed to drive while pmssing….
I’m impressed with the absolute misery they’ve conveyed in those photos.
The way the R looks in that font is annoying to me. It looks flat-footed.
Mayor Gia, maybe they mean because she’s in a lot of pain? I’m less coordinated definitely when my period is at its worst. The extent they describe here sounds more like a mental disorder. I feel bipolar or depressed women might misdiagnose themselves with this. Unless there’s a caviat for that.
PMS is a “disease” now??
I’m one of those women referred to, who the book was written for, now going through a rather late Menopause (I had,had periods for over 10 years before it was published). I dropped everything this week, felt dizzy, panicky, tearful, cold & bad tempered. Sure enough I have got a period after a gap of a couple of months. I once dropped a can of beans on a woman’s foot in a supermarket. Unfortunately she had recently undergone bunion surgery. There are some moments when even PMT is not a good enough excuse!
This book shows its age- it’s obviously very out-dated. But anyone who still refers to their period as a “disease” or “curse” needs some education and/or a good therapist. As a feminist, I take a serious offense at this book suggesting a woman in the workplace, while having her period could ever be considered, “biologically inferior”! WTF It’s ok, the book is old so I’ll just shake my head and proceed to laugh at the other comments of other books