Read the nearly contemporary commercial booklet Your Personal Guide to Menstruation And Tampon Usage from o.b. tampons, 1988. (See all MUM booklets on this site.)
Read the complete Growing Up and Liking It booklets: 1944, 1964, 1970, 1972, and many covers 1944-1978
Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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HOMEPAGE |
LIST OF ALL TOPICS |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
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Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation |
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Essay directory |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
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Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
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Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
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Olor |
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Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
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Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., menarche, menstruation & puberty booklet for teenage girls
Having Your Period., 1985, U.S.A., complete

As you might expect, the non-commercial Planned Parenthood created a booklet that's clear and short, no nonsense, no romantic photos and it has nothing to sell the reader; it gives away advice and facts. An average girl could have understood it.

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 started with the product supplied by a company in school seldom changed their brand, which happens with many products. 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. Prof. Brumberg's office kindly sent me (unsolicited) her article when this museum opened in 1994.]

One omission is a calendar, which most booklets had.

Compare the nearly contemporary commercial booklet Your Personal Guide to Menstruation And Tampon Usage from o.b. tampons, 1988. (See all MUM booklets on this site.)



Below: Back & front covers. The black-and-white paper booklet measures 3 15/16 x 5 15/16" (about 10 x 15 cm).
 

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