Read the complete Growing Up and Liking It booklets: 1944, 1964, 1970, 1972, and many covers 1944-1978
complete 1963 How Shall I Tell My Daughter (for parents), also from Modess, and the complete 1972 Growing Up and Liking It. See covers of other Growing Up and Liking It booklets - ads for teenagers
Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday. Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (1935) - Facts About Menstruation that every Woman should know (1936) - Marjorie May, introductory page, 1935 main page
Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
See a Kotex ad advertising this booklet.
See Kotex items: First ad (1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck 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 - box from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page

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Modess menarche, menstruation & puberty booklet
Growing up and liking it, 1957, complete

Compared to the earliest Kotex sanitary napkin & puberty booklets, Growing Up and Liking It (from the Kotex competitor, Modess [Personal Products Company], which lost the battle) 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.

See the ad the teenage Carol Lynley, later an actress, made for these booklets, and see other ads for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey) and German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981).

See also Personal Digest and Growing up and liking it from the same company, and Lynn Peril's article about such booklets.

See Modess belts here, a famous Modess ad campaign and how Modess sanitary napkins began. Read the complete Growing Up and Liking It booklets: 1944, 1964, 1970, 1972, and many covers 1944-1978 - ads for teenagers

This booklet is meant for children. Read the complete 1963 How Shall I Tell My Daughter, for mothers.

Back & front covers. See other covers from the Growing up and liking it series.
Read the complete Growing up and liking it booklets: 1944, 1964, 1970, 1972. List of similar booklets.
 
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