Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made
for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine
- a list of books and articles about menstruation
- videos
See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May
booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1932),
Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935 Canadian edition
of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, probably identical to the American edition.
More ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.)Are you in
the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
 
|
 
"Maiden, Wife and Mother: How to Attain Health, Beauty, Happiness,"
by Mary R. Melendy, M.D., Ph.D., 1903, U.S.A.
Excerpts about menstruation and its disorders, contraception,
religion & reproduction - exercise - and diseases of women
I again thank Ben Truwe for another great contribution to MUM!
|
Below: "Contraception."
The author advised her readers wanting children to have sexual intercourse
about the time of the menstrual period, probably just the opposite of the
advice today. And to avoid children: Husbands, leave
your wife alone! Even if she believed in contraception she could
not have advocated it in her book because of the American Comstock laws
in effect since 1873 that also prohibited pornography. The horror of the
situation is that she railed against abortion at the same time she deplored
the effects of unwanted children. Fifteen years after this book appeared
the law would charge Margaret Sanger with distributing contraceptive information,
which started the successful effort to allow people public access to contraception
and information about it.
But for years - centuries, millennia? - women came up with their own
ways to avoid babies: sponges and other
things carrying a million chemicals from everywhere
into women's bodies.
|
 |
 |
© 2007 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
|