MORE puberty booklets
& teachers' guides | panties | belts
| pads | tampons | cups | sponges | washable pads
| odor
| teen ads
More KOTEX booklets:
Life Cycle Library: The Miracle of You, Your
Years of Self-Discovery (cover and excerpts,
1968)
Life Cycle Library: You and Your Daughter, 1968
As One Girl to Another (complete booklet,
1940)
Marjorie May Learns About Life (complete
booklet, 1936, Canada)
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (almost
complete booklet, 1928, Australia) (complete booklet,
1935, Canada) (cover, mid-1930s, U.S.A.) (complete booklet, 1938, U.S.A)
now you are 10 (complete
booklet, 1958)
Personal Hygiene for Women
(complete booklet, 1928) How to flush Kotex
down the toilet, physiology, etc.
Preparing for Womanhood (almost
complete booklet, 1920s, Australia)
That day is here again . . . (That
day is here again . . ., 1944)
Very Personally Yours (complete booklets, 1948, 1961, & 1981)
"You're a young lady now" (complete
booklet, 1952, Kotex, U.S.A.) Complete booklet,
1959.
 
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Kotex: The Life Cycle Library, Volume I
Menstruation, puberty, tampons, & sanitary pads educational booklet
The Miracle of You: What It Means To Be A Girl, U.S.A., 1968
Complete booklet
As it has done since at least the 1920s, Kimberly Clark Corporation
created this booklet to explain menstruation and puberty to girls of the
era, this time as part of a series called The Life
Cycle Library. (See covers and excerpts
from some of the other booklets in the series.)
As you might expect, in general the explanations in the booklets become
more explicit with time; certainly they become
more inclusive ethnically although this one does not get beyond schematic
genitals, not revealing facial type or color.
But like all booklets from companies (contrast one from Planned
Parenthood) this one promotes its products.
More puberty booklets
& teachers' guides. | Panties | belts
| pads | tampons | cups | sponges | washable pads
| odor
| teen ads
More KOTEX BOOKLETS:
Life Cycle Library: The Miracle of You, Your
Years of Self-Discovery and You and Your Daughter (covers
and excerpts, 1968)
As One Girl to Another (complete booklet,
1940)
Marjorie May Learns About Life (complete
booklet, 1936, Canada)
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (almost
complete booklet, 1928, Australia) (complete booklet,
1935, Canada) (cover, mid-1930s, U.S.A.) (complete booklet, 1938, U.S.A)
now you are 10 (complete
booklet, 1958)
Personal Hygiene for Women
(complete booklet, 1928) How to flush Kotex
down the toilet, physiology, etc.
Preparing for Womanhood (almost
complete booklet, 1920s, Australia)
That day is here again . . . (That
day is here again . . ., 1944)
Very Personally Yours (complete booklets, 1948, 1961, & 1981)
"You're a young lady now" (complete
booklet, 1952, Kotex, U.S.A.) Complete booklet,
1959.
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Below: Back & front covers, each measuring
5 1/4 x 7 3/4" (13.2 x 19.5 cm).
Very unusual for these booklets: no pages are numbered.
I numbered them
in a conventional way.
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