More about washable pads: General subject - 19th century Italian - 19th century Norwegian - Pattern for home sewing - Snap-on - With underpants - With belt
More about menstrual seclusion: Dogon of Mali - Hawaiian - Suriname (discussed by Sally Price, Dittman Professor of American Studies at the College of William and Mary, who spent many periods in menstrual huts)
I believe most women in Europe probably bled into their clothing (into their underclothing, a chemise - see it) before 1900; read about this.
Read about the washable pad project for the neighboring Indian state, Rajasthan.
Ads for the Kotex stick tampon (U.S.A., 1970s) - a Japanese stick tampon from the 1970s.
Early commercial tampons - Rely tampon - Meds tampon (Modess)
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

 

Washable napkins for menstruation for women in Almora, Uttar Pradesh state, India, giving them more freedom (1999) (page 3)

Dr. Margaret Greene, of the Center for Health and Gender Equity in Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S.A., sent the page and the information accompanying the page below.

Below, women learn to change the menstrual pads three times a day and to wash them.

END First page, second page

END First page, second page. See another washable pad project in India, in Rajasthan.
More about menstrual seclusion: Dogon of Mali - Hawaiian - Suriname (discussed by Sally Price, Dittman Professor of American Studies at the College of William and Mary, who spent many periods in menstrual huts). More about washable pads: General subject - 19th century Italian - 19th century Norwegian - Pattern for home sewing - Snap-on - With underpants - With belt

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