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For a later, American celebration that was a
tad more graphic (see Tamara
Wyndham's celebration.
Booklets menstrual
hygiene companies made for girls, women and
teachers - patent medicine
- a list of books and
articles about menstruation - videos
See a Kotex ad
advertising a Marjorie May booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (Kotex, 1932), Tampax
tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955,
with Carol Lynley), and German o.b. tampons (lower ad,
1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935
Canadian edition of Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday, probably identical to the American
edition.
More ads for teens (see also introductory page for
teenage advertising): Are
you in the know?
(Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948,
U.S.A.), Are you
in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.)Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts, 1964,
U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex
(1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons
and a list of tampon
on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
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Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health homepage
Former museum - future - visit to the
museum comic strip
"Ein Fest für unsere Töchter,"
("A Festival for Our Daughters,"),
one-page announcement for a
celebration of menstruation,
Frankfurt, Germany, 1988
In America I believe public
celebrations of menstruation and
especially of menarche started in the
1960s and 1970s with the rise of
feminism. I suspect Europe has an
earlier history of this, not having been
bound by a society that usually
suppressed sexuality.
This announcement seems suspiciously
commercial, almost an ad for a dance
teacher. But read it for yourself.
For a later, American celebration that
was a tad more graphic (I think, anyway)
see Tamara
Wyndham's celebration.
This comes from the catalog
"Menstruation: Monatshygiene im Wandel
von 1900 bis heute," Text und Katalog:
Sabine Zinn-Thomas und Walter Stolle.
Eine Ausstellung des Hessischen
Landesmuseums Darmstadt in der
Außenstelle Lorsch, 26.11.1998 bis
31.7.1999. My translation:
"Menstruation: Changing menstrual
hygiene [in Germany, mostly] from 1900
to today [1998]." Text and catalog:
Sabine Zinn-Thomas and Walter Stolle. An
exhibition of the Hessian State Museum,
Darmstadt, in the branch at Lorsch, from
November 26, 1998 to July 31, 1999.
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My translation lies under the
Flugblatt - a flyer, handbill
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My translation:
A Festival for Our
Daughters
Women celebrate
their menstruation
Suggestions and
exchange of experiences in
connection with meditative-folk
dancing
A weekend seminar in
spring, 1988, in Frankfurt
for mothers of 10 - 15 year old
girls
with the movement teacher DAGMAR VON
GARNIER
In order to
participate you must be experienced
with simple, "gebundenem" circle
dancing in order to enter best
prepared into the movement
experience that leads to the theme
Daughter - Menstruation -
Possibilities of Celebration
["versärkt" seems to be a typo for
"verstärkt"]
The longer and
harder interested women "tune in"
during this weekend the richer the
exchange for everyone will be.
Until then get the
tips for preparation and available
dance appointment times as well as
exact information about this special
weekend in spring, 1988, from Dagmar
von Garnier, 6000 Frankfurt 70, 33
Schneckenhof Street, (please enclose
1 German Mark, not an envelope)
It's planned to put
the collected experiences in written
form for women who weren't able at
attend. Interested women please put
1 German Mark with their request and
write Text for "A Festival for Our
Daughters." As soon as it's ready
(after summer 1988) you'll be
notified when it'll be ready and for
how much.
Please give this
notice to as many women with young
daughters as possible.
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For a later, American celebration
that was a tad more graphic see Tamara Wyndham's
celebration.
© 2006 Harry Finley. It is illegal to
reproduce or distribute any of the work
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