See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey),
Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1970s)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog)
- Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual
hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here
to Kotex items) - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s,
booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing
disposal method - box
from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?"
ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
 
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THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH - 1996
Let Me Tell You About THE FILM on Menstruation!
Canadian television viewers saw the best film ever made
about menstruation March 11, 1997 in
Toronto, 29 April on the Knowledge Network, 30 April in Ontario and 7 May
on the Communications Network in Saskatchewan. The all-woman Starry Night Productions from
Vancouver spent more than a year interviewing people involved professionally
with menstruation to make the hour program Under
Wraps (now - November 2001 - called Menstruation: Breaking the Silence)
Meet toxic shock
researcher Dr.
Philip Tierno, Jr., of New York University Medical Center; MacArthur Fellow Margie Profet, theorist
of the biology of menstruation; and Judy
Blume, Tamara Slayton, Jay Critchley, Karen Houppert, Wenda Gu, Lori Katz
and Barb Meyer, Liz Armstrong and Adrienne Scott, Bernadette Vallely, Sophie
Laws, Jacqueline van Laar, Mark Hutton, Marciellene Peterson and the founder of this museum, in the only film that I know of to deal with the general subject
of menstruation and not be funded by a menstrual products company.
The fast-paced show starts off with artist Judy Chicago installing her
artwork Menstruation Bathroom in Los Angeles and finishes almost 60 minutes
later with artist Wenda Gu showing and discussing his menstrual art on the opposite coast,
in New York.
But in between
we see what I think is the most important section, that dealing with the
continuing danger of toxic shock. Meet a woman missing the fingers of one hand,
which blackened and cracked off because of toxic shock, and who later lost
the lower halves of both legs because of the continuing ravages of the disease.
Dr. Tierno of NYU says that the only
safe tampons are made of cotton, not artificial fibers, even today. The film makers themselves switched from tampons
to unbleached washable pads after interviewing Dr. Tierno.
We also see and hear Judy
Blume read from Are
You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, the book many women
remember as their introduction to adulthood.
And we meet many other people important in today's world
of menstruation - besides you, that is!
Folks at the Vancouver International Film Festival thought
highly of the film, and Americans can see it later in festivals here.
Teresa MacInnes and
Penny Wheelwright of
Starry Night, director/producer and producer/writer respectively, had always
wanted to make a film about menstruation, but the obstacles caused by the
taboo nature of the subject were too great to overcome until recently.
Americans can
buy the film by contacting
Films for the Humanities
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
Tel: 609-275-1400
Fax: 609-275-3767
Toll free order line: 1-800-257-5126
Canadians can buy the film through the National Film Board of Canada.
© 1997 Harry Finley. It is illegal
to reproduce or distribute 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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See Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981) See a Lucky Strike cigarettes ad from 1933.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933),
See also the booklets How
shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing
up and liking it (Modess, various dates),
and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and
similar booklets!
See another ad for As One Girl to Another (1942),
and the booklet itself.
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