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Site guide for historical books, pamplets
&
booklets promoting patent medicine,
douching,
hygiene, cups
and/or explaining puberty,
menstruation, the facts of life,
sex companies
& nonprofits made for girls,
teens, and their parents, women -
and sometimes
boys
(Pad [towel,
napkin] directory - Tampon
directory)
Companies (and other
organizations) making menstrual
products sometimes
produced, and produce, literature
for women and girls - and boys,
for sex
education - to explain
menstruation, menarche, "the
facts of life," and company
products.
As far as I know the first
booklets appeared in the 1920s, at
least
in America. Professor Joan
Brumberg, of Cornell University,
has written
about how the teaching of the
facts of menstruation passed from
the family
in the early 19th century to the
schools and then to the companies,
which
sent its
information to the schools. And
girls
who start with the product
supplied by a company in school
seldom change
their brand. So it's an important
step for companies to interest the
schools
in their teaching material. (See "Something
Happens
to Girls': Menarche and the
Emergence of the Modern American
Hygienic Imperative"
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, of
Cornell University, in the Journal
of the
History of Sexuality, 1993,
vol. 4, no. 1.; see also Lynn
Peril's essay on this MUM Web
site.)
You can
find the following on this Web
site.
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Menstruation
& sex education booklets for
and about girls, women &
boys
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Accent on
you (complete
booklets, 1970s-1980s?,
1980
& 1983,
Tampax, U.S.A.)
Always
Changing (complete
booklet, 1995, Always pads,
Procter & Gamble, U.S.A.)
Always in
Style: Your Personal Guide to
Choosing Feminine
Protection Products (complete
folder, 1993,
Always pads, Procter & Gamble,
U.S.A.) For teenagers.
Are you in
the know? Great
BOOKLET collection of the
etiquette ads Kotex ran for
decades
(U.S.A., Kotex napkins and
belts, 1956)
As One Girl
to Another (complete
booklet, 1940, Kotex,
U.S.A.)
Becoming
Aware Educational Kit (Complete
kit, Kotex, 1992?) Contains
booklets for girls and their
mothers &
sample pads and tampons. Donation
from kind site visitor!
See
many more kits at the bottom
of this page.
Boys: Have
you wondered what happens when
girls grow
up? (complete
pamphlet, Personal Products
Co., 1973) Quick lessons for
probably only mildly interested
boys.
Congratulations!
You're growing up! menstruation:
a guide for maturing young women
(complete
booklet,
1978, Midol pain medication,
Glenbrook Laboratories, U.S.A.)
Discovered
and overheard secrets in the
area of women's
hygiene and rejuvenation by
Nurse Thekla Buckeley
(Dutch, 1928, selections about
menstrual hygiene,
partly translated into English.
Dutch title: Ontdekte
en afgeluisterde geheimen op het
gebied van dames-hygiene en
-verjonging.) Booklet
for women about menstrual hygiene
among
other things. Great picture of the
woman of ill repute who
represented Camelia
menstrual pads. A Dutchman
generously
sent these scans of his booklet.
Es geht um
die besten Jahre Ihres Lebens !
("It's
About the Best Years of Your
Life!" 1956?, complete
booklet translated, Tampax,
Germany). A Dutchman
generously donated
the scans of his booklet.
Essence of
Womanhood (complete
booklet, 1959, Personal
Products Corp., Modess tampons,
U.S.A.)
Getting to Know
Yourself (complete
booklet, 1962, Pursettes
lubricated tampons,
U.S.A.)
Growing Up
and Liking It (complete
booklets:
1944, 1949, 1957, 1963, 1964,
1970, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1991.
The Personal Products Company,
U.S.A.) (many covers,
1944-1991)
Having Your
Period (complete
booklet, 1985, Planned
Parenthood Federation of America,
Inc., U.S.A.)
Text and pictures are to the
point; there's no product to sell.
Health Facts
on Menstruation, by Lloyd
Arnold,
M.D. (here,
1933, Kotex, U.S.A.)
How Can We
Teach About Sex? by
Benjamin C. Gruenberg,
Public
Affairs Pamphlet No. 122, 1946,
Public Affairs
Committee, Inc, New York City,
U.S.A. A prominent sex educator
discusses
sex education in schools,
venereal disease, doctors,
religion, the Catholic
Church, marriage, divorce,
children, character, moral
training, parents.
How shall I
tell my daughter? [How
Shall I Tell My Daughter?
in the 1954 edition & Daughter
in 1969] (complete booklets, 1954,
1963, 1968, 1969,
1973, 1981,
Personal
Products Co.) See covers of
Modess booklets.
Excerpt
about how to fasten a pad to a
belt and
about sanitary panties & a
funny story from the 1969 booklet.
Hvordan
Kroppen Din Forandrer Seg ("How
Your
Body Changes," complete
booklet, Tampax
tampons, Norway, 1990; my
translation) A Norwegian kindly
donated the booklet.
It's a Woman's
World (complete
booklet, [1980s?] Tampax,
U.S.A.)
it's time
you knew . . . [all about
menstruation]
(complete
booklet, 1966, Tampax,
U.S.A.)
Just Between
Us . . . 1950
edition - (1961
edition, cover & several
pages
about menstrual belts and panties,
Beltx)
[The] Life Cycle
Library: The Miracle of
You, Your Years of
Self-Discovery and You
and Your Daughter (covers and
excerpts,
1968, Kotex, U.S.A.)
(The) Life Cycle
Library
Kotex): The Miracle of
You (complete
booklet,
1968)
[The] Life
Cycle Library for Young People,
Book I
(Parent and Child Institute,
U.S.A., 1969), Chapter
4, Book I: A Girl
Becomes a Woman. In contrast to
the Kotex
series with a similar name
(above), this one is hard cover.
It's odd that
the two apparently independent
series appeared in consecutive
years.
Marjorie May
Learns About Life (complete
booklet, 1936, Kotex,
Canada)
Photo of Mary
Pauline Collender, author
of
the Marjorie May stories (biographical
information)
Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (almost
complete booklet, 1928,
Kotex, Australia)(complete
booklet, 1935, Canada)(cover,
mid-1930s, U.S.A.)(complete
booklet, 1938, U.S.A). Photo
of Mary
Pauline Callender, author
of the Marjorie May stories.
Biographical
information for Mrs.
Callender.
Marriage
Hygiene: The important part
it plays in the ideal marriage
(complete
booklet,
1932, Lehn & Fink, Inc.,
distributor of Lysol vaginal
douche). Promotional
booklet for Lysol & douching.
[Die]
Menstruation (excerpts,
1977, o.b. tampons, Germany)
Photographer David Hamilton
contributed many
photographs to this explicit and
beautiful booklet. By the way,
"Die"
in the title means "the," not to
lose life.
Nancy's
Biggest Day at Camp (complete
booklet, 1941, Modess
menstrual pads, U.S.A.) Nancy's
biggest day was
learning about menstruation at
summer camp, not having her first
period
there unless the company just
didn't want to discuss that. No
discussion
of tampons, which Modess also
made, probably because many people
thought
they would turn a virgin into a
fallen wom-, er, girl, a problem
Tampax
discussed in an ad.
Black and white. Generous
gift from an anonymous donor!
now you are
10 (complete
booklet, 1958, Kotex,
U.S.A.)
Omdat de
lijnen van je lichaam veranderen
(Dutch;
English: As
the lines of your body change), 2007, The
Netherlands, Libresse pads &
puberty booklet
Ontdekte en
afgeluisterde geheimen op het
gebied van
dames-hygiene en -verjonging
(by Nurse Thekla Buckeley, 1928?,
The
Netherlands, selections
about menstrual hygiene
partly
translated into English. English:
Discovered
and overheard
secrets in the area of women's
hygiene and rejuvenation)
Booklet
for women about menstrual hygiene
among other things. Great picture
of the
woman of ill repute who
represented Camelia
menstrual pads. A Dutchman
generously sent these scans of
his booklet.
Parent's
Guide (complete
tri-fold, 1992, Kotex) part
of Becoming
Aware Educational
Kit
[The]
Periodic Cycle (complete
booklet, 1938, The Personal
Products Corp., U.S.A., maker of
Modess
pads) The booklet states that this
is for older teenage girls, and is
probably
a companion to What a
trained nurse wrote to her young
sister, below.
periods and
puberty: a practical guide for
girls (complete
booklet,
1987, Procter & Gamble,
Always pads, U.S.A.)
Personal
Hygiene for Women
(complete
booklet, 1928, Kotex) How to
flush Kotex down the toilet,
physiology, etc. Contemporary with
Kotex's
booklet for girls Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday,
almost
complete booklet, 1928,
Australia.
Preparing
for Womanhood (almost
complete booklet, 1920s,
Kotex, Australia)
Q girls
& boys A (complete
booklet, 1987, Tambrands,
U.S.A.) Puberty
booklet
for girl & boy teens.
Explains menstruation,
adolescence, personal care,
exercise, tampons, menstrual
pads, nutrition, TSS, skin care
& it promotes
Tampax Maxithins, panty shields,
& tampons
Sally and
Mary and Kate Wondered . . .
(complete
booklet, cover,
1956, Personal Products Corp.,
U.S.A.)
Sarah's
Story (complete
booklet, 1990, Kotex) part
of Becoming
Aware Educational
Kit
Small
Wonder: How Tambrands began,
prospered and grew
(1986, 50th anniversary of the
company) history
of
Tampax Inc. and Tambrands
that the company probably
commissioned. Tambrands
generously donated the beautiful
book.
Strictly
Feminine (complete
booklet with an actual
letter from a mother to her
daughter's doctor
- 1969, Personal Products Co.
[Modess], U.S.A.)
Tampax Satin
Learner's Kit, 2001, in 3
languages:
English.
Booklet, pads & tampons
Trousse de
l'étudiante French
Estuche de
Aprendizaje Spanish
Tell it like
it is: Straight talk about
tampons (complete
booklet, 1968, Kotex stick
tampons, U.S.A.,
revised 1974; complete
booklet, 1981, although
the title lacks the subtitle
"Straight talk about tampons"). I
wonder if "straight"
alludes to the
shape of
tampons.
That day is
here again . . . (That
day is here again . . .,
1944, Kotex, International
Cellucotton Products
Co., U.S.A.) World War II
influences this booklet in
drawings and text.
A frequest Dutch contributor
generously sent the scans.
Very
Personally Yours
(complete booklets, 1948, 1961,
& 1981,
Kotex, U.S.A.) The 1948
booklet praises
Allah,
something Muslims might be as
puzzled about as believers in
other religions.
Volwassen
worden ("Growing up," the
Netherlands, excerpts,
2004, o.b. tampons)
What a
trained nurse wrote to her young
sister
(complete
booklet, probably late
1930s-early 1940s,
The Personal Products Corp.,
U.S.A., maker of Modess pads).
Probably a companion
to The
Periodic Cycle (1938),
above, written for
older teenage girls.
What a Young
Woman Ought to Know,
Self and Sex series, 1913, U.K.
Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, M.D. Selections
World of a
Girl (complete
booklet, 1963, Scott Paper
Co., U.S.A., Confidets menstrual
pads) Colorful,
beautiful illustrations.
You and Your
Daughter: Asked & Unasked
Questions
Every Mother Should Answer (complete booklet)
Kimberly-Clark,
U.S.A., 1968, Kotex: The Life
Cycle
Library, Volume III (3)
Your
Personal Guide to Menstruation
and Tampon Usage
(complete
booklet, U.S.A., 1988, o.b.
tampons)
"You're a
young lady now" (complete
booklet, 1952,
Kotex, U.S.A.) The first owner
might have printed her named on
the back of the booklet. Complete
booklet,
1959,
apparently with the owner's name
cut out.
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The
Intimate Side of a Woman's Life
by Leona
Chalmers, 1937, book, 128 pp.
Cleanliness! Douching, bathing, ,
etc., and
the author discusses the menstrual
cup, possibly the first in the
U.S.A.
Also: how to get a man by stayong
very clean.
Home
Treatment of Female Diseases (1894,
complete),
mostly about how Cardui patent
medicine effects cures. With
sections on
douching.
Mon Docteur vaginal douche
set (complete?),
with (separate?) documents,
American, 1928-29?
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Criticism
of menstrual cups, U.S.A., 1930s.
Daintette cup: See instructions for the cup;
information about
the Dainty Maid douche apparatus
(and see a set); and covers of
Mon Docteur and Daintette booklets; items the company
sold (sells?); "unsolicited
testimonial letters," and ads in
newspapers seeking women
to sell the product at parties.
The
Intimate Side of a Woman's Life
by Leona
Chalmers, 1937, book, 128 pp.
Cleanliness! Douching, bathing, ,
etc., and
the author discusses the menstrual
cup, possibly the first in the
U.S.A.
Also: how to get a man by staying
very clean.
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Patent
medicine booklets, mainly
for women
(see more patent medicine here)
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Portfolios
and guides for teachers
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"A
Teaching Guide for Menstrual
Hygiene"
(cover,
1962, Personal Products Corp.,
U.S.A.)
"A Teacher's
Guide to Feminine Hygiene"
(cover,
1973, Personal Products Corp.,
U.S.A.)
"Becoming
Aware Educational Kit "(Complete kit,
Kotex, 1992?) Contains booklets
for
girls and their mothers &
sample pads and tampons. Donation
from kind
site visitor!
"Educational
Material on Menstruation
furnished
by the makers of Tampax" (1966)
U.S.A.
Folder with
huge number of information
sheets, etc.
"Educational
Portfolio on Menstrual Hygiene"
(1968) U.S.A. Teacher's
kit
for Modess sanitary napkins,
menstrual tampons
and panties (mostly complete)
"From
Fiction to Fact: a teaching
guide about
puberty, menstruation and the
human reproductive system"
(complete 1966, 1986,
Tambrands, U.S.A. The 1966 version
is part of the
huge "Educational
Material on Menstruation
furnished
by the makers of Tampax,"
1966)
"Teacher's
kit" (complete,
early 1950s, Personal Products
Corp., U.S.A.)
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See also .
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Sex Facts
for Women, by Richard L.
Lambert,
Ph.G. [Graduate Pharmacist], M.D.,
1936, New York
Walt Disney film for Kotex, excerpts
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