As One Girl to Another (complete booklet, 1940, Kotex, U.S.A.)
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (almost complete booklet, 1928, Kotex, Australia)(complete booklet, 1935, Canada)(cover, mid-1930s, U.S.A.)(complete booklet, 1938, U.S.A) Photo of Mary Pauline Collender, author of the Marjorie May stories
now you are 10 (complete booklet, 1958, Kotex, U.S.A.)
MANY MORE booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation - videos
All TAMPONS &
all PADS on this site
What did women do about menstruation in the past?
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? |
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.


Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

Becoming Aware Educational Kit
Puberty kit for girls & their mothers (Kotex, 1992?, U.S.A.)
Box contains booklets for mothers & their daughters, and sample menstrual pads & tampons
Explains menstruation, adolescence, tampons, girls' growth, menstrual pads

Introduction to this kit.
Parent's Guide
Sarah's Story
Pads & tampon in this kit

Below: Front of the box containing the booklets, pads and tampons.
The box measures 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 2 3/8" (16.5 x 23.5 x 6 cm). The top
flips up from the right side. The green object is a sticker.
 
Below: The back of the box.
The copyright date at bottom is 1992.
 
Below: The top of the box, identical to the bottom.
Below: One side of the box, identical to the other except for a faint background pattern.
   

NEXT | Mailing box - box holding the kit, two booklets and sample pads and tampons - 1st BOOKLET: cover & plan of PARENT'S GUIDE -
1st inside page - middle inside page - right inside page - left outside page - middle outside page - 2d BOOKLET: SARAH'S STORY -
PADS & TAMPON in the kit
As One Girl to Another (complete booklet, 1940, Kotex, U.S.A.) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (almost complete booklet,
1928, Kotex, Australia)(complete booklet, 1935, Canada)(cover, mid-1930s, U.S.A.)(complete booklet, 1938, U.S.A)
MANY MORE booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine -
a list of books and articles about menstruation

Copyright 2009 Harry Finley