| Summary: | Considered as a ‘global epidemic’ by the World Health Organization (WHO), stress figures as one of the major contemporary disorders. In this article, we examine the discursive constructions on female stress, that is, when the term is specifically related to women. In order to do so, we conduct a discursive analysis of the brazilian Veja magazine from 2000 to 2018. Our intention is to observe the ways in which the magazine reviews the consequences of the so-called ‘feminine emancipation’ in terms of stress from two main sources: (1) the relationship between stress, hormones and PMS; (2) stress as a consequence of the ‘triple working time’ (the accumulation of the roles played by women: worker, wife and mother). We conclude that such discourses on female stress collaborate to confirm that certain sources of tension, as well as how to deal with them, are regard as been morally and physiologically concerned to women.
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