See some roughly contemporary booklets:
Your Personal Guide to Menstruation and Tampon Usage
(complete booklet, U.S.A., 1988, o.b. tampons)
Tampax Satin Learner's Kit, 2001, in 3 languages:
English. Booklet, pads & tampons
Trousse de l'étudiante French
Estuche de Aprendizaje Spanish
Having Your Period (complete
booklet, 1985, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., U.S.A.)
Text and pictures are to the point; there's no product to sell.
Omdat de lijnen van je lichaam veranderen (Dutch;
English: As the lines of your body change), 2007, the Netherlands, Libresse pads & puberty booklet
More booklets menstrual hygiene
companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list of books and articles about
menstruation
 
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Always Changing Puberty
& menstruation information for girls, 1995, Always menstrual pads, Procter
& Gamble, U.S.A.
Complete booklet
First pages of the booklet.
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Below: Pp. 25-inside back cover.
Someone crossed out the order blank (bottom, right) before it arrived at
MUM.
Menstrual products companies have offered fashion articles and advice through
the years.
And of course clothing and menstrual products have
danced together
in modern Western society, the object being to hide any hint of the
products, meaning menstruation.
Below: Compare how this booklet says to
pronounce the word menstruation
(p.26) with how a roughly
contemporary Growing Up and Liking It (Stayfree
pads, etc.) booklet wants you to.
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End | covers inside front cover & contents
1-4 5-8 9-12
13-16 17-20 21-24 25-inside back cover
Your Personal Guide to Menstruation and Tampon Usage
(complete booklet, U.S.A., 1988, o.b. tampons
Tampax Satin Learner's Kit, 2001, in 3 languages:
English, French, Spanish
Having Your Period (complete
booklet, 1985, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.)
Omdat de lijnen van je lichaam veranderen (Dutch;
English: As the lines of your body change), 2007, the Netherlands, Libresse pads & puberty booklet - OLDER booklets
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