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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Many domestic and foreign publications, radio
and television 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: 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, 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, 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
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?"
© 2000-2006 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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