Ussher Jane M., Perz Janette
Maianbar, NSW, Australia
This chapter uses a feminist material-discursive theoretical framework to examine how women adopt the subject position of ‘monstrous feminine’ via the role of premenstrual embodiment. In this examination, Ussher and Perz draw on interviews they conducted with women who self-diagnose as ‘PMS sufferers.’ They theorize that this self-positioning is subjectification, wherein women take up cultural discourse regarding idealized femininity and the stigmatized fat body; according to the authors, this results in distress, self-objectification, and self-condemnation. However, they argue that women can reduce premenstrual distress and resist negative cultural constructions of premenstrual embodiment and fat bodies through women-centered psychological therapy, which increases awareness of embodied change and leads to greater self-care and acceptance of the premenstrual body.
本章运用女性主义物质-话语理论框架，探讨女性如何通过经前身体体现的角色来采用“怪异女性气质”的主体位置。在这一探讨中，厄舍和佩尔兹借鉴了他们对自我诊断为“经前综合征患者”的女性进行的访谈。他们提出理论，认为这种自我定位是主体化过程，即女性接受了关于理想化女性气质和被污名化的肥胖身体的文化话语；据作者称，这会导致痛苦、自我客体化和自我谴责。然而，他们认为，女性可以通过以女性为中心的心理治疗来减轻经前痛苦，并抵制对经前身体体现和肥胖身体的负面文化建构，这种治疗能提高对身体变化的认识，并带来更多的自我关怀以及对经前身体的接纳。
