 
Zimbabwe women suffer beatings
over mistaken origin of disease caused by inadequate menstrual protection
"Over 500 000 sanitary products have been collected to help desperate
women in Zimbabwe forced to use newspapers and rags as substitutes."
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"Life as a Bleeding Woman,"
essay by Jennifer Gardner
Modess "Sanitary Panty-kini," 1960s-1970s
Take a
university SURVEY on women's issues (letter follows)
Some of my independent research students have undertaken a survey
research study on women's issues. They have created an online questionnaire
which should take approximately an hour (usually less) to complete. We welcome
all participants [men too].
Go to: http://www.ff5umw.com/Comm.html
You will be asked to enter your e-mail address, and a new
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Please help these students contribute to the literature on
the psychology of women and women's issues. They need a large sample for
their planned analyses, so your help would be greatly appreciated.
Mindy J. Erchull, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
HELP!! Australian museum seeks items
for show!
We are looking for items related to menstruation (advertising,
educational materials, paraphernalia and packaging) for research and museum
display in an Australian university. We are particularly interested in Australian historical items, but we would be glad
to receive anything that any of the readers of MUM would be able to give
to us. After display, the items would be stored in the museum for others
to be able to learn from, and to preserve them for future generations. Please
contact Kate and Christine via email at kaylans@gmail.com
if you can possibly help, and we can give you further details and discuss
anything that you would like to know more about.
Thank you, Kate and Christine
Stayfree panty pads (above, right) makes
the stick-in-panties breakthrough (here,
in a Dutch ad), banish suddenly old-fashioned menstrual belt, in ads from
1972 & 1973
Another early
Dutch ad for a menstrual cup.
Europeans could buy an American menstrual cup in the 1970s:
Dutch ad for Tassaway, 1972
Tampax Bulletins, (above), early 1950s,
for answering frequent questions.
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