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
Parent's Guide

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

Below: The PARENT'S GUIDE is a tri-fold printed on both sides. The two little dots (actually purple squares) at the bottom of each page line up beautifully on the folder but not on my scans. Blame me, not Kotex.
Each of the three sections measures 6 3/8 x 9 1/8" (16.2 x 23.2 cm).
See the cover, at right, at the bottom of this page.
 
 
Below, larger image: Right out of the box you see only the folder's cover
with the other pages tucked invisibly underneath.
That tiny circle with a dark center right of "Aware" near
the edge (
enlarged right below) is a speck of something (center) on the printing plate that has
prevented the ink from landing on the paper (the white part); printers
and their clients of course
hate this imperfection. Because of its shape
and the feelings toward it
the technical term for it is an "as-" - whoops! -
well, it's the crude term among a certain class of people for
"anus."
But this is a DECENT Web site for you DECENT people who of course have
never heard this printers' word before.
 
Left: No, this is not another spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope of a, um, black hole.
Read above for its correct identification.
 

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