See an ad for this booklet.
Read a Personal Products booklet for older
girls from about this time, The Periodic Cycle
(1938). See similar
booklets on this site.
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.
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THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
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Howard
Stern Grills MUM
Director
Talk show host Howard
Stern interviewed me
about this museum yesterday
morning on his radio program
for almost a half hour, and
I think he was impressed! Well, at
least at one point he said
he found it interesting.
And after preparing for
some tough questions, he was
gentle with me.
We talked about Martha
McClintock, Judy
Chicago, your MUM,
why I
created such a strange
museum, and many less
intellectual topics. You
know Howard Stern. Four
callers posed questions.
Twenty-eight minutes felt
like five, and I can't
remember most of it!
I have spent many of the
past twenty-four hours
answering the deluge of e-mail from listeners, most of it
very positive. I hope
this excuses the delay in
putting this update up,
and for making it so
short. I'll publish some
interesting letters next
this coming Sunday, 11
May. I'm worn out!
While sitting in my living
room talking with Howard - hey, we're
on a first-name basis now,
folks! - on the
phone, and scratching the Distinguished
Service Institutional
Albert Lasker Memorial
Pouncer at the Museum of
Menstruation (scroll to
the bottom of this
page),
a video crew filmed me for
an appearance on his
television show. My radio
talk would be combined with
a video tour of the museum,
which the crew shot after I
got off the phone, and which
occasionally runs late at
night.
I'll have more
for you next week.
Santa Monica Press, Which
Published Offbeat
Museums, Creates a
Web Site
This museum has a spot in
the neat book Offbeat
Museums, and Mike,
from that California press,
tells me that they are now
on the Web, at http://www.santamonicapress.com
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