Social Construction Women

Chapter 5, talks about social construction and deviant behaviors. Weitz talks about how, “an ill person is one whose actions, abilities, or appearance do not meet social norms: expectations within a given culture regarding proper behavior or appearance” (Weitz 104). After reading the three articles, you can tell that this issue is socially constructed. This can show a form of deviance. When women are not following the norms of society this can be looked at as an illness. The article, Pathologizing Your Period, talks about that you can be labeled with PMDD if, “you are unhappy, bloated, hard to concentrate, having food cravings, breast tenderness”. The drug Prozac was made to relax these issues, when the drug became aimed to focus on the issue of women and PMDD the pharmaceutical
Women were born to get their periods in life, it’s a function and a part of life and society is trying to stop it with medication. Some people don’t look at the whole picture of this. The article, PMS is a social Construction shows that this is an everyday concept of women. “If PMS was a disease or a syndrome there would be some underlying bio-medical cause, as well as some consensus among women who are diagnosed as to what the symptoms are and when they are experienced in the menstrual cycle” (PMS is a Social Construction). The article makes it clear that they are trying to explain how women to get symptoms and it make them not feel well, but it is reality and something people need to deal with. It should not be considered a disease. “To say that PMS is a social construction does not mean that women don’t experience it. It does not mean, “it’s all in your head.” It does not mean that your experience doesn’t exist, or is invalid in some way. Rather, the claim is that the explanatory framework surrounding this set of experiences is faulty, and that it would be more constructive to look for and attempt to address the true causes behind this phenomenon” (PMS is a Social