Read the earlier versions: 1948,
1961
Read a Personal Products booklet for older girls, The Periodic Cycle (1938). See similar
booklets on this site.
See a Kotex ad advertising a
Marjorie May booklet.
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)
 
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Very Personally Yours (Kotex, Kimberly-Clark
Corporation)
puberty & menstruation booklet for girls, 1981, U.S.A.
This booklet is part of a series of Kotex puberty booklets (earlier
versions: 1948, 1961);
earlier series extended to the 1920s in America and elsewhere (for example
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday and As One Girl To Another). Kotex was not the only company
that made them (see links to the left and above).
The booklets tended to become more informal as the years passed probably
reflecting their eras. Look at the boom box
in the upper right corner of the cover; according to the Merriam-Webster
online dictionary the paired words entered English the
same year as this booklet appeared, 1981.
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Below: Front cover (p. 1), which measures
6 x 8 1/2" (15.4 x 21.6 cm). The back cover (p. 24) is blank except
for the number 281 in the lower left corner.
A bigger boom box sits below this cover.
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Below: If you look to the far right of
the girl's knuckles (right below her mouth) you'll see this name, KELLEY, on a line. I assume it's the
artist. I'm glad the company let her/him get credit; this didn't
happen often with artists in publications like this.
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