Read the complete Growing Up and Liking
It booklets: 1944, 1964,
1970, 1972, and many
covers 1944-1978
 
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., menarche, menstruation
& puberty booklet for teenage girls
Having Your Period., 1985, U.S.A., complete
As you might expect, the non-commercial Planned Parenthood created a
booklet that's clear and short, no nonsense, no romantic photos and it has
nothing to sell the reader; it gives away advice and facts. An average girl
could have understood it.
Professor Joan Brumberg, of Cornell University, has written about how
the teaching of the facts of menstruation passed from the family in the
early 19th century to the schools and then to the companies, which sent
its information to the schools. And girls who
started with the product supplied by a company in school seldom changed
their brand, which happens with many products. So it's an important step
for companies to interest the schools in their teaching material. [See "Something Happens to Girls': Menarche and the Emergence
of the Modern American Hygienic Imperative" by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
of Cornell University in the Journal of the History of Sexuality,
1993, vol. 4, no. 1.; see also Lynn Peril's essay
on this MUM Web site. Prof. Brumberg's office kindly sent me (unsolicited)
her article when this museum opened in 1994.]
One omission is a calendar, which most booklets had.
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Below: Back & front covers. The black-and-white
paper booklet measures 3 15/16 x 5 15/16" (about 10 x 15 cm).
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