1980 American folder with great visual pun on cover: Your Teenage Menstrual Cycle
Growing Up and Liking It (complete booklets: 1944, 1949, 1957, 1964, 1970, 1972, The Personal Products Company, U.S.A.) (many covers, 1944-1978)
Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation - videos
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
LIST OF ALL TOPICS |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
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, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
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 |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

How shall I tell my daughter? Puberty & menstruation information for mothers to tell daughters
1973, Personal Products Company, U.S.A.
Complete folder

Personal Products Company, besides making menstrual pads, also published booklets explaining menstruation and puberty for girls and their parents (well, mothers), as did other companies, such as Kimberly-Clark (Kotex; sample booklets here) and Tampax tampons (here).

Rather than a booklet this How Shall is a folder.

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); and Stayfree (U.S.A., the Netherlands) ad with Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby (1982).
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, the famous Modess ad campaign and how Modess sanitary napkins began.
See the complete 1963 edition. See the list of all such booklets on this site.
The companion Growing Up and Liking It booklets (complete: 1944, 1949, 1957, 1964, 1970, 1972, The Personal Products Company, U.S.A.) (many covers, 1944-1978)
How shall I tell my daughter? [Daughter in the 1969 edition] (complete booklets, 1963, 1969, Personal Products Co.) See covers of Modess booklets. Excerpt about how to fasten a pad to a belt and about sanitary panties & a funny story from the 1969 booklet.

Below: The two sides of the folder. The RED BAR shows which enlarged (unnumbered) page(s) appear below.
 
 
Below: Front cover. Each page measures
5 1/2 x 7" (13.8 x 17.8 cm).

NEXT 1-2 3-4 5 6-7 8-9
The companion Growing Up and Liking It booklets (complete: 1944, 1949, 1957, 1964, 1970, 1972, (many covers, 1944-1978)
More How shall I tell my daughter? booklets: 1954 1963, 1969, 1981 | Covers of these booklets
 

© 2008 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