COMIC STRIP: Sylvia (by Nicole Hollander),
about this museum (5 August 1995)
What did European and American women use for menstruation in the
19th century and before?
Ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are
you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts, 1964,
U.S.A.), Freedom (1990, Germany), Kotex
(1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes
(1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
More ads for teens: See
a Modess True or False? ad in
The American Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in "How Shall I
Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many
dates).
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Publications, radio and
television around
the world
have mentioned or discussed MUM, including
British Broadcasting Corp.-TV (and the program
Everywoman, on BBC World Service radio, and in its
magazine, Eve), BBC Radio 1, Australian Broadcasting
Corp., Swedish National Radio, Irish National Radio
(2FM), Switzerland Télévision Suisse
Romande (Bon Entendu, Geneva, May 2001), German TV Pro
Sieben, PBS (U.S.A.), Canadian TV (the film Under Wraps), Moral
Court show (Oct.-Nov. 2000, Fox Network television,
U.S.A.), Comedy
Central TV network (tour of MUM by Beth Littleford
on The Daily Show), German TV RTL2, many U.S. and
foreign radio stations, including Howard
Stern (also his cable TV program), Bob
& Mike Show
Information on this MUM site assisted in designing
the pads and belts used by the "frontier" women on
Frontier House project (WNET-TV, New York, 2001)
PERIODICALS: ADWEEK
(Perspective: The Lady Problem, Jan. 2012), American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Newsletter,
American Health, Anna Bella (Switzerland), Australian
Net Directory Magazine, Australian Women's Forum,
Baltimore Sun, Boing-Boing, Bust (and I was one of the
Men We Love, "Bustiest," in the Fall 2000 issue),
Chatelaine, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, City
Paper (Washington, D.C., and Baltimore
[cover
story 1995, updated 2007]), Cleveland Plain
Dealer, Colors (France), Concord (Mass.) Telegraph,
Curve, Detroit Free Press, Dolly (Australia), Eve (BBC
publication for women), Fabula, Family Practice News,
Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Ft. Lauderdale (Florida)
Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Worth (Texas) Star-Tribune, Forum
Magazine, Freizeit-Kurier (Austria), Girlfriend
(Australia), Girlfriends Magazine (U.S.A.), The Guardian
(United Kingdom), Glamour, HQ (Australia), The (London,
England) Independent on Sunday, Internal Medicine News,
Johns Hopkins Magazine, Jump, Los Angeles Times, Los
Angeles Weekly, Manchester Guardian (England), Il
Manifesto (Italy), Maclean's
magazine (Canada), Marie Claire (United Kingdom, Latin
America and Italy editions),
Macleans's magazine (Canada), The
Medical Reporter, Milk (Australia), Ms., Nassau
Weekly (Princeton, N.J.), The New Physician, New
Scientist magazine (U.K.), News-Letter (Johns Hopkins
University student newspaper), The New York Times (three
articles), The Nose, Ob-Gyn News, El País
(Madrid, Spain), O Globo (Brazil), Penthouse, People
Today (Australia), Pioneer Log (Lewis and Clark College,
Oregon), Playboy, Playgirl, POPsmear, Prince George's
Journal, Print, Prospect, The Rag (Canada), Reforma
newspaper (Mexico City), San Francisco Chronicle, San
Jose Mercury News, Sassy, SCA Customer Magazine, SCA
Inside Hygiene Products, Self, Seventeen (U.S.A. and
Philippines), Sojourner. Der
Spiegel, Germany's largest newsmagazine, used a
picture from
MUM in an online series on the history
of
birth control (second picture) (text in German).
Stuff (United Kingdom), Sydney Morning Herald
(Australia), taz (die
tageszeitung, Germany), Terrapin (University of Maryland
student newspaper), Throttle, Toronto Star (Canada),
Vagabond (Norway), The Village Voice [book version]
(New York City), Washington Post, Washington Times, Who
Weekly (Australia), Women's Sports and Fitness, and
other publications in England, New Zealand, Brazil,
Colombia, Mexico, and Sweden.
COMIC STRIP: Sylvia (by Nicole Hollander),
about this museum (5 August 1995)
BOOKS:
America's
Strangest Museums (Sandra Gurvis; Citadel Press,
1996); Things On
The Net Newt Wouldn't Want You To See (B. Ballsey;
Off Color Press, 1996); Offbeat Museums (Saul
Rubin; Santa Monica Press, 1997); The
Human Sexes (Desmond Morris, 1998); The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable
Taboo: Menstruation (Karen Houppert; Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1999); The
Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (Debbie Stoller, Marcelle
Karp; Penguin USA, 1999); The
Woman's Guide to Sex on the Internet (Anne Semans and Cathy Winks;
HarperSanFrancisco, 1999); El tabú (Margarita
Rivière and Clara de Cominges; Editorial Planeta,
Spain, 2001); The V Book: A
Doctor's Guide to Complete Vulvovaginal Health,
(Elizabeth G. Stewart and Paula Spencer; Bantam,
Doubleday, Dell, 2002), 100
Places Every Woman Should Go by Stephanie Griest (Travelers'
Tales, Palo Alto, Ca., 2007)
I (Harry Finley) have entries in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America.
ON THE WEB: Encyclopedia
Britannica Internet Guide Award; Lycos rated MUM in the top 5%
of all sites; "Best
of the Net" site for the category of Women's
Health within the About Women's History site (October
2002); E!
Online got information from me about the history
of women's underpants (2006); The
Web Magazine gave this site its highest overall
rating; The Mining Company
called this site the Best
of the Net, May 1999; and Snap! Online
called this site the Best of the Web in the
Entertainment Channel. Roadside
America, a museum-review site, discussed MUM, as
did Salon.com.
Der Spiegel, Germany's
largest newsmagazine, used a picture from
MUM in an online series on the history
of
birth control (second picture) (text in German).
About MUM:
"It's fabulous that somebody out
there is willing to . . . pull back the curtain."
(Mona Miller, national media relations director of the
Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, discussing the museum in The Prince
George's Journal, Maryland, U.S.A.)
(from a letter, with
original spelling, to the Museum of Menstruation, from
"Shocked, by women," mailed from Cheyenne, Wyoming,
U.S.A.)
"Stick to jock itch products, buddy."
(in a commentary about the museum and its creator
in the defunct Sassy, an
American magazine for teenage girls)
"I hope that your museum continues to prosper."
(Jane Holley Connors, executive producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
which broadcast a 16-minute interview from the museum)
"Ultimately, I turned to friends and to women in the
medical profession for on-line recommendations [for Web
sites about women's health]. Knowing my thresholds for
panic, pain and typos, they offered me a list of Web
sites that proved more useful than my random search. My
favorites included the Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health (www.mum.org/), an
odd, funny and well-researched site (created by a man), on the history of
menstruation as told by women around the world."
(Janice Maloney, "Finding Some Warm Havens in the
Web's Information Blizzard," Women's
Health: A Special Section, The New
York Times, 21 June 1998. This site was the first
of the few sites recommended in the article.)
"It is a first for me, who has worked in women's
health for eight years, to see such painstaking
documentation of a societal taboo. It is a wonderful thing to give women
an alternative forum that is positive, as our society
has convinced us that the very cycle that makes us
women is somehow unhealthy and unclean; nothing
could be further from the truth."
(Diane Imelda Fleming, Family
Planning Council Training Department, writing
of this museum)
"Also, from a less
scientific but more lively survey, hundreds of women
have posted replies to the question 'Would you stop menstruating if you
could?' at the online Museum of Menstruation. This
gem of a website is a
virtual repository for everything you ever wanted to
know about women's periods."
(Sylvia Pagán Westphal, in the article
"Lifting the Curse," New
Scientist magazine, 16 March 2002. The only
"Further reading" listed at the end of the article was
the book Is Menstruation Obsolete? [Elsimar Coutinho
and Sheldon Segal, Oxford University Press, 1999] and
this Web site. Read and
contribute to "Would you stop menstruating if
you could?"
© 2000-2011 Harry Finley. It is illegal to
reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site
in any manner or medium without written permission of
the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org
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