See similar booklets - Read 1944 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 the Kotex booklet Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, and read three mid-1930s booklets by Kotex, including a much-changed version of Marjorie May's twelfth Birthday. Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal Digest Read the whole menarche booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940). See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual 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 CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: homepage | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | founder/director biography | gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | humor | huts | links | masturbation | media coverage of MUM | menarche booklets for girls and parents | miscellaneous | museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | odor | olor | pad directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | underpants & panties directory | videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | washable pads Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. Health Facts on Menstruation, by Lloyd Arnold, M.D. (Kotex, U.S.A., 1933) cover This is an early strictly "scientific" Kotex booklet (here's an earlier one, from 1928; Marjory May's Twelfth Birthday, 1928, Australian edition, is a pep talk for girls and sales pitch for Kotex pads in addition to a representation of what the writer wanted girls to know about the facts of menstruation). It breaks with earlier ideas that menstruation is a sickness and that women should treat themselves very carefully; he writes that women who perform manual labor have fewer problems than others. Dr. Arnold says no to douching, but it's interesting that Kotex later sold at least one douche liquid for women (Kotique), probably wanting to give women what they wanted and make some money in a big market. The doctor also nixes the idea that menstruation is a "purification," an idea going back at least to the ancient Greeks, saying that it is simply the process the body uses to rid itself of unneeded tissue and that women are no more "impure" than men. Similar booklets. next pages 1 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10 - Read 1944 Growing Up and Liking It - See covers of other Growing Up and Liking It booklets   next pages 1 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10 © 1999 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org\