1980 American folder with great visual
pun on cover: Your Teenage Menstrual Cycle
Growing Up and Liking It (complete booklets:
1944, 1949, 1957, 1964, 1970,
1972, The Personal Products Company, U.S.A.) (many
covers, 1944-1978)
Booklets menstrual hygiene companies
made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine
- a list of books and articles about menstruation
- videos
 
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How shall I tell my daughter?
Puberty & menstruation information for mothers to tell daughters
1973, Personal Products Company, U.S.A.
Complete folder
Personal Products Company, besides making menstrual pads, also published
booklets explaining menstruation and puberty for girls and their parents
(well, mothers), as did other companies, such as Kimberly-Clark (Kotex;
sample booklets here) and Tampax tampons (here).
Rather than a booklet this How Shall is
a folder.
See the ad the teenage Carol
Lynley, later an actress, made for these booklets, and see other
ads for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey) and German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981); and Stayfree
(U.S.A., the Netherlands) ad with Olympic gymnast
Cathy Rigby (1982).
The companion Growing Up and Liking It
booklets (complete: 1944, 1949,
1957, 1964, 1970,
1972, The Personal Products Company, U.S.A.) (many
covers, 1944-1978)
How shall I tell my daughter? [Daughter
in the 1969 edition] (complete booklets, 1963,
1969, 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.
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5 1/2 x 7" (13.8 x 17.8 cm).
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