Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
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catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person
in a menstrual 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
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Modess menarche, menstruation & puberty booklet
Growing Up and Liking It, 1944 (pp. 2-3)
Compared to the earliest Kotex sanitary napkin
& puberty booklets, Growing Up and Liking It
reads easily and colloquially (just like the even more relaxed As One Girl to Another, Kotex, from 1940, whose typography
reinforces this) reflecting in a way the ease and slang of popular songs
of the time. It would be interesting to know why language on screen and
in publications seems to have changed so much in so few years.
Also in contrast to the earliest booklets,
the reader sees anatomical diagrams of the reproductive system, although
I wonder how interested girls were in them. The accompanying physiological
discussions are pretty dry. Of course a doctor - a male doctor -
that authority figure in recent American society, talks the physiology.
Throughout the booklet "growing up" means puberty, an interesting,
narrow meaning but consistent with the title.
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