Also from Personal Products: Read complete Growing
Up and Liking It booklets: 1944, 1964, 1970, 1972,
and see many covers 1944-1978
Read Lynn Peril's series about
these and similar booklets. Read the whole booklet As
One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
Kotex's Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935
main page
 
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Personal Products Co. menarche, menstruation & puberty booklet (maker
of Modess menstrual napkins & tampons,
among others)
For boys: a book about girls (1981, revised
1/87), complete
Not only girls needed to know about menstruation, boys did too. This
booklet gives a sympathetic account of Women's Mysteries to boys although
knowing the lads - I was one once - it didn't stop all the snickering.
The only way to lessen it is to openly and often
talk about menstruation past the point people want to hear. Pretty
soon guys will be running away with their hands over their ears.
Mystery creates curiosity. Why do you think I
created this museum?
Roughly contemporary booklets:
Tampax's booklets Accent on you,
1970s-1980s? &
1980.
Congratulations! You're growing up! menstruation:
a guide for maturing young women (complete
booklet, 1978, Midol pain medication, Glenbrook Laboratories, U.S.A.)
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.
It's a Woman's World (complete
booklet, [1980s?] Tampax, U.S.A.)
Tell it like it is: Straight talk about tampons (complete booklet, 1968, Kotex stick tampons, U.S.A.,
revised 1974; complete booklet, 1981)
Very Personally Yours (complete booklets,
1948, 1961, &
1981, Kotex, U.S.A.)
EARLIER & LATER booklets
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Below: Back & front covers. Each of
the pages measures 5 7/16 x 6 11/16" (13.8 x 17.3 cm).
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