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| Abortion |
In The Sexual
System and Its Derangements,
by Dr. E. C. Abbey (1882) |
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Advertising,
old (critques, etc.) See also separate
directories: pad directory,
patent
medicine, tampon
directory, douches, pain,
sprays and more in the
links above.
See many American
ads at Duke
University
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Are you in the
know? (Kotex)
(1944
(Canada), 1944
(USA), 1948,
1949, 1953, 1956 (booklet),
1964) - Australian
(pads & belts, 1900s)
(douching
1900)(for Camelia
pads, 1952)(for Myzone pain pills, 1952) - Brevia confetti
panty pads and tampons (1988,
France) - Camelia
pads (German, 1920s, 1930s,
1990) (1952,
Australia) - Carefree
(U.K.) liner pad ads - Carefree
pads, Germany (1990
, pantiliners,
1970s)
- Carefree
Teen pantyliner (1991, USA)
- Ad-design contest
in Britain - Curads
disposable pad (1920) - Dr. Pierce's
patent medicine - Dr. White's
tampons 1987 (United Kingdom)(1989, 3-D
glasses) - Elldy
tampon (Japan, 1996)
- Famous
people in menstrual
hygiene advertising (Cathy Rigby,
Lee Miller,
Brenda Vaccaro,
Carol Lynley,
Susan Dey,
Mary Lou Retton)
- Flushable
menstrual-pad ads (Modess,
June 1972; Sani-Flite,
Aug. 1971) - Fems
pads (American, 1921) - Freedom
(German; plastic
bag with ad) (French 1990)
(U.K.1990) - Fresca
douching powder - Hartmann's pads
(Germany,
U.S.A., England, 1890s) Kotex
(prototype 1921)
(1920s, skating)
(15 Nov 1922)
(Jan. 1923)
(July 1923,
proof)
(March 1926)
(small,
1920s) (1933, Phantom)
("and I promised Mom - ," 1943)
(March, 1949)
(1960) (1992) (tampons,
1960s -1970s) (Are you in the
know? (1948, 1949, 1953, 1956 [booklet,
1964])(1969,
box,
"sci-fi")(stick tampon
1990) - Liasan
genital wash (German 1, 2, 1980s) -
Lil-lets
tampons (U.K., 1988) - Lines
pads (Italy) - Lucky Strike
cigarettes - Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Lysol
douche (1928,
1948) - Marvel douche
(1926) - Meds
tampons (1941)
(195?,
Australia)(actual tampon
1967, USA)(ad 1967 USA)
Midol
menstrual pain pills (1938; booklet
1959) - Mene
(U.K.) 1931
- Modess
"Silent
Purchase" June 1928 - (1928) (Modess . . . .
because) (1931) (French)
(Modess True
or False? ad, The American
Girl magazine, January 1947)- Hartmann's Mulpa
(1890s, first German disposable pad)
- Mum
deodorant (1926
USA) - Myzone
ad period pain pills 1952 - New Freedom
adhesive pads, USA (1971) (1985) (Promotional
leaflet for New Freedom pads,
about 1971) - o.b. tampon
(Germany 1950s,1970s) (USA, 1989)
(France, 1989)
- Old
Dutch Cleanser (1920s) -
Pursettes
tampons (USA) (early, ? 1959)
(early, April
1959) (1965)
(Feb. 1974)
(Oct.
1974) (undated,
1970s?), Pursettes ad
offering educational material -
first American ad to feature real person in
menstrual products ad:
Lee Miller,
1928, for Kotex - Rely
tampon - Ria
panty pads (German) - Saba
pads (Denmark) (Mimosept Saba,
Sweden, 1981)
- Spalt-Tabletten
pain pills (Germany, 1936) - Sterizol
douche (1926) - Swedish
adhesive pad (1970s) - Tampax:
(first ad?,
1936) (1939)
("Are Vaginal
Tampons Prejudicial to Health?":
proof for a British Tampax ad, 1952)
(Aug. 1965) (Tampax
ad promoting use with thongs,
February 1994) ("Are you sure
I'll still be a virgin?" Feb.
1990) (1992)
- Teenagers,
ads for -
Vania
Girl (France, 1991) - Whenever
panty pads (USA, 1987) - "Woman to
Woman" [Camelia
pads (German, 1920s), Fems
pads (American, 1921)] - Zonite
douche liquid (1928) - See also
Tampons and Pads, below. |
| Africa,
contemporary customs |
Report about
contemporary practices (2004): "Menstrual
Hygiene and Management in
Developing Countries: Taking
Stock," November 2004, by
Sowmyaa Bharadwaj and Archana Patkar |
| Animals
and menstrual and vaginal odor |
Bears, sharks,
humans, other primates - Some
information
about the earliest menstruating
animals, etc |
| Apron,
sanitary |
See Underwear |
|
Art of
Menopause exhibit;
artists respond to menopause
Art
of
Menstruation
exhibit; artists respond to
menstruation
Awesome
ancient
art of menstruation in Peru
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Marie Claire (Italy) featured
several of the above artists in
an article
in 2003, which aslo discussed
this museum.
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| Art
and Artists,
non-menstrual |
FISH (early
20th cent. American woman)- Max
Brödel - Harry Finley |
| Articles
in the monthly news |
News, Notes and
You |
| Articles,
Essays, Zines (but not
scientific ones; see Medicine,
Menarche, Odor, Safety, Synchrony,
Tampons for other articles) |
"Terms of
Endearment," movie review by
Geneva Kachman - "In Search of
Menarche: An Interview with Molly
Strange,"
by Geneva Kachman - "If Men Could
Menstruate," by Gloria Steinem
- "Before I
Grew Up," by "Michelle" |
| Asbestos
and other harmful material in
tampons and pads |
The rumor
of asbestos in tampons, which has
been alive since the 1970s,
according to Nancy Friedman's Everything You
Must Know About Tampons
(1981, Berkley Books, New York) |
| Asia |
China: belts with
pad holders, 2000 & 2005
- Belt
with pad (2000) - Disposable
pad and panty pad
India: Some menstrual
customs, with suggestions for
improved ways of absorbing menses
and education:
Teaching
girls about menstruation and how
to make washable pads, in the
state of Rajasthan, by
MacArthus FLD Fellow Lakshmi
Murthy
Washable
pads for women in Almora, Uttar
Pradesh state, giving them more
freedom, contributed by Dr.
Margaret Greene
See also Report about contemporary
practices (2004): "Menstrual
Hygiene and Management in
Developing Countries: Taking
Stock," November 2004, by
Sowmyaa Bharadwaj and Archana
Patkar
Japan: Early 20th cent.
menstrual belts
(and comparison with a drawing by
English artist Aubrey Beardsley) -
early 20th cent. instructions
for homemade belts and pads and
discussion of the "pony," uma)
- early 20th cent. menstrual underpants
- Shampon
Young stick tampons (1977) -
ad for Elldy
tampons (1996) - tampons
with finger
cots - Anshin
tampons (origami
applicator), 1977 - words and
expressions for menstruation
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| Bags,
disposal for used menstrual
pads |
From Europe
and America
Ads for bags: Germany
(with Camelia pad ad, 1990),
America (with Whenever panty-pad
ad, 1987)
(with New Freedom pad ad, 1985)
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| Belts,
sanitary napkin |
Ads: Sears,
1928, 1946-47)
(Modern
belts)(washable)
(Modess,
1960s )
Actual belts, including just
pictures: Main list.
1945, U.S.A., "Classic"
- packaging: before 1930: "Tru-Fit" -
miscellaneous American in packaging -
Swedish ad
showing woman wearing belt - Kotex belt
(1990) on mannequin - Dutch ads
for Stayfree showing women wearing
belts: 1972,
1973. Australian,
about 1900.
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| Bidet
allows men and women to wash feet,
hair, beards, genitals and perineum
in a toilet-like device. The bather
usually rides
it like a pony; Pony is what the
word meant in the French of
400 or so years ago. |
Portable,
French (1928) |
| Bimanual
(two-handed) and other kinds of
pelvic examination of women |
Using doll
(China,19th century)
Sims
position (started 19th
cent.)
The Touch
(le toucher) 19th cent. U.S.A.
The
gynecologic palpation,
article by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
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| Birth control
pill (The Pill) |
Enovid-E,
1964, physician's professional
sample
Oral
hormonal contraceptives,
article by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
Site-visitors' opinions
intermingled in other discussions
in the discussion of stopping
menstruation with birth control
pills and by other means.
Uninterrupted
use of hormonal contraceptives
for menstrual suppression: why I
do not recommend it, by
Brazilian gynecologist Dr. Nelson
Soucasaux
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| Board
of Directors of MUM |
Board of
Directors |
| Booklets,
menarche education, puberty,
menstruation, facts of life, for
parents, women and girls: see here for a
detailed list. |
Article
by Lynn Peril: Growing Up
and Liking It - Growing Up and
Liking It (by Modess)
booklets (complete booklets: 1944, 1972) - Health Facts on
Menstruation, by Lloyd Arnold,
M.D. (Kotex, U.S.A., 1933) -
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex booklet, Australia, 1928, USA 1938) -
Modess teacher's manual - Preparing
for Womanhood (by Kotex,
Australia, ca. 1928) - How shall I
tell my daughter? (by Modess)
booklets - Getting
to Know Yourself (Pursettes,
1962) - now
you are 10 (Kotex, 1958) -
Teaching guides (Modess 1962,
Tampax 1986)
- "What a
trained nurse wrote to her young
sister," menarche booklet (The
Personal Products Corp., maker of
Modess pads, probably from the late
1930s or early 1940s) - "You're a
young lady now" (booklet from
Kotex, U.S.A., 1952) |
| Booklets,
other |
Personal
Digest (Modess, Personal
Products Company, 1966-67)
Promotional
leaflet for New Freedom pads
(about 1971
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| Books
and articles about
menstruation |
Bibilography
of Menstruation - Menstruation
and religion - Bücher
auf deutsch (German books) - Magic and
Medicine in Menstruation
(booklet from Schering Corporation,
Medical Research Division, U.S.A.,
1934, promoting Progynon) |
| Books and
pamphlets, advice
for women |
Sex Facts for
Women, by Richard J. Lambert,
Ph.G. [sic?], M.D. (booklet, 1936) -
Married Love,
by Maria Carmichael Stokes, D.Sc.,
London; Ph.D., Munich, founder of
the first birth control clinic in
the British Empire. This is the
first American edition allowed by
censors, published in 1931 by G.P.
Putnam's Sons, New York (The
Knickerbocker Press) |
| Bowl |
For soaking used washable
menstrual pads New
Cycle, early 1990s, with
links to more such bowls
Pre-Columbian
bowl (menstruating vagina)
from the Nasca culture on the
coast of Perú, c. 200 BCE -
600 AD
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| Breasts |
Articles by
gynecologist Dr. Nelson Soucasaux: The breasts:
some morphological aspects - Premenstrual
congestion of the breasts - Women's
experience of the breasts |
| Carrier
or Case
for tampons and pads |
Vinnie's
(1998) |
| Cats
of the Museum of Menstruation (many,
among
them Prof. Dr. Mack C. Padd, Maxine
Padd, Minnie Padd, Pam T. Padd, The
Supreme Kitten, Sarah Tonin, Neku
Wafu (Necco Wafer with a Japanese
twist meaning Japanese cat), Meds, fax,
Fibs and Wix ) |
Prof.
Mack C. Padd, the Distinguished
Service Institutional Wallace C.
Meyer Memorial Pouncer - Slacking
off
(tenure review) and discussion
of three cats - meowing order (organizational
structure) of the cats |
| Cats
in general |
Essays,
etc. |
| Celtic
views on menstruation and religion |
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| Charts |
"Standing
Female Pelvic Organs" for
the Tampax Educational Department
"Female
Reproductive Organs" for the
Tampax Education Department
See a Tampax sculpture.
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| Chinese
pads, pad holders and belts |
Belts with
pad holders, 2000 & 2005 -
Belt with pad
(2000) - Disposable pad and panty pad |
| Chlorosis "green
sickness," a form of anemia common
among 19th-century adolescent girls,
often attributed to masturbation,
indolence, etc. Read a long,
interesting discussion in Drawing Blood,
by Keith Wailoo, 1997, Johns Hopkins
Press |
In The Science of
a New Life (1875) |
| Colposcopy
examination of the cervix of the
uterus and of the vagina by a
special instrument |
Article by
Dr. Nelson Soucasaux |
| Comics |
Frauen
gemeinsam ("Common to
women"), about menstrual
sychronization, Germany, Brigitte
magazine, 1992
Sylvia
by Nicole Hollander (episode about
this museum)
Single
(Dutch, 2005) Comic strip about
three nurses. This episode
features PMS.
A "Visit to
the (Future) Museum of
Menstruation" by its
director, Harry Finley (art and
story). Not finished!
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| Companies,
menstrual hygiene |
SCA
Mølnlycke (Norway) - What
does o.b. mean? - Tampax gives
MUM big gift
- The Keeper
menstrual cup - Instead
menstrual cup - InSync Miniform
interlabial pads |
| Company booklets
(facts of life) for girls and
their parents (whole list) |
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| Congressional
bills H.R. 2900 and
890 |
Tampon Safety
and Research Acts of 1997 and 1999
(sponsored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney,
Democrat of New York) |
| Constipation |
In The
Intimate Side of a Woman's Life,
by Leona Chalmers, 1937, U.S.A. - Dr. Young's
Improved Rectal Dilators
(U.S.A., 1900?-1940?); it's probably
a masturbation device |
| Contraception |
The "Pill":
Oral hormonal contraceptives,
technical article by Dr. Nelson
Soucasaux
A short history
of contraception and religion - Egyptian
hieroglyphics from about 1550
B.C.E. describing a
tampon used for contraception
Australian
douche ads in the "Wife's Guide
and Friend": The
Australian government prosecuted
this publication for being obscene
because it advertised
contraceptives and contained birth
control information.
Fresca
douche powder (early 20th
century, U.S.A.); the label
contains language possibly hinting
at contraceptive use.
Current discussion about using
birth control pills to stop
menstruation (including
Seasonale)
Selections from Married Love
(first published 1918), Dr. Marie Stopes'
book that was long banned in
America. Dr. Stopes founded the
first birth-control clinic in the
British Empire, in 1921, and it's
still running
Uninterrupted
use of hormonal contraceptives
for menstrual suppression: why I
do not recommend it, by
Brazilian gynecologist Dr. Nelson
Soucasaux
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| Costumes |
Menarche
costume from British
Columbia, Canada
Ancient
Greece: "Dress,
Gender and the Menstrual Culture
of Ancient Greece," by Amy
Pence-Brown
Dress made
of Instead cups, worn by
the founder of the Ultrafem
company on public relations
occasions
drawing,
and letter giving costume
to MUM - photo
Halloween
costume worn by a member
of the team at Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland,
U.S.A., that developed the Instead
menstrual cup
photo
and story
"Priest's"
robe of pads, etc., that
caused a controversy in Canada
newspaper
photo and story
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| Cups,
menstrual, history,
your comments |
Catamenial
sack (1867) - Comparison
between
the Keeper and Instead (also
in News) - Daintette
- Foldene
- Leona Chalmers patent for
Tassette (1937) - The Keeper
- Tassaway (history)
(1970s)
- Tassaway
stock certificate - Tassette |
| Customs,
menstrual |
Report about contemporary
practices (2004): "Menstrual
Hygiene and Management in
Developing Countries: Taking
Stock," November 2004, by
Sowmyaa Bharadwaj and Archana
Patkar
India:
Teaching
girls about menstruation and how
to make washable pads, in the
state of Rajasthan, by
MacArthus FLD Fellow Lakshmi
Murthy
Washable
pads for women in Almora, Uttar
Pradesh state, giving them more
freedom, contributed by Dr.
Margaret Greene
Slapping
the girl who starts menstruating,
in Jewish custom:
The Tradition
of Slapping Our Daughters,
by Caren Appel-Slingbaum
Slapping
questionnaire for you, by
Lana Thompson
Connected with religion:
Books
about menstruation and religion -
Religion
and Menstruation: e-mail
exchanges - Leviticus 15
(Old Testament) and verses from Luke,
Matthew and Mark
And there are many contributions
through the Letters to your MUM
section of news pages
|
| Cuts |
Why the founder of
this museum, Harry Finley, cut his arms
over 100 times as a teenager (among
other things) and how this might
relate to his starting this museum. |
| Daintiness
advertisers often used this word in
menstrual products ads |
Nupak menstrual pads,
1926, 1927 -
Kotex menstrual pads, 1932 - Daintette
menstrual cup (by Dainty Maid, Inc.,
U.S.A.) - Personal
Daintiness, booklet by "Mrs.
Barton," for Fems pads, 1921 |
| Developing
countries,
menstruation in |
Report about contemporary
practices (2004): "Menstrual
Hygiene and Management in
Developing Countries: Taking
Stock," November 2004, by
Sowmyaa Bharadwaj and Archana Patkar |
| Diaper |
Pads compared to: Italy, Australia,
U.S.A. (two
Tampax ads) |
| Disney,
Walt, film for Kotex |
Still-frame excerpts |
| Dispensers,
tampon and pad |
Kotex (1920s-1930s)
(1960s?)
- Modess (1960s?)
- Kotex dispenser offer
(flyer, 1968) - Modess Because
- Neps
- Pure Nap
Home
tampon dispenser (cabinet)
from Sweden, of beechwood,
contemporary and for sale from
maker.
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| Douches,
vaginal
lotions and gels, deodorants |
Amolin,
The Personal Deodorant Powder
(U.S.A., 1930s?) - Daintette
douche (USA) - Kotique
douche (USA 1972) - Lysol douche
ad (USA, 1928,
1948) -
Liasan genital wash ad (Germany, 1980s a,
1980s b)
- Marvel
ad (USA, 1926) - Mum deodorant ad
(1926,
USA) - Sterizol
ad (1928, USA) - Vionell
genital spray deodorant with
Cheryl Tiegs (Germany, 1970) - Zero-Jel
vaginal cream (USA) - Zonite
douche liquid (USA, 1928)
Douche
syringe ("Faultless"),
1960s-1970s?, U.S.A.
Douche
syringe ("Mon Docteur" from
Mary Coleman) in box, douche
tablets in box and assorted
printed material, American, about
1928-29.
Little
Doozee, douch nozzle for
carbonated beverage bottle
The Perils
of Vaginal Douching (essay
by Luci Capo Rome)
Read 1930s criticism
of douching with Zonite and Lysol.
Thalysia
catalog, Germany, 1933,
offering douche apparatus
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| Education,
menstrual |
List
of facts-of-life booklets
companies made for girls and
parents.
German article
in Bravo, magazine for teens
(1980s)
|
| Endocrinology
of the menstrual cycle, current
ideas |
Article by
Brazilian gynecologist Dr. Nelson
Soucasaux |
| Endometriosis |
Caused by menstrual
cups? Not enough evidence, says the
FDA. Read the FDA's decision. |
| Enovid-E
birth control pill |
Physician's
professional sample, 1964 |
| Eugenics the
definition from Sir Francis Galton:
"the science
which deals with all the
influences that improve the inborn
qualities of a race. It has also
been called the science of
improving the human race by better
breeding." |
Safe
Counsel/ or/ Practical Eugenics,
excerpts, by B. G. Jeffries,
M.D., Ph.D., J. L. Nichols, A.M.,
Ozora S. Davis, Ph.D., and Dr.
Emma F. A. Drake (39th edition,
1928, J. L. Nichols & Co.,
Naperville, Illinois, U.S.A.) |
| Examination
woman's physical, pelvis, genitals |
Using doll
(China,19th century)
Sims
position (started 19th
cent.)
The Touch
(le toucher) 19th cent. U.S.A.
The
gynecologic palpation,
article by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
|
| Facts-of-life
booklets for girls
and their families |
List of
those on this site. |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked
Questions about this museum,
with biography of the founder, Harry
Finley |
| Female sexual
response |
Article
by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux |
| Films,
videos |
In
Search of Juan Colorado - Under Wraps |
| G-spot
(Gräfenberg Spot) An
alleged area in the vagina and
urethra that is very sexually
responsive |
Gräfenberg
Spot, article by Dr. Nelson
Soucasaux |
| Germany,
a Note from, by
Petra Habiger |
Camelia pad ad
and Frau Habiger's introduction
- Agevis
menstrual pain medicine, and
cartoon |
| Gilbreth report
(1927) to Johnson &
Johnson about what women wanted in
menstrual pads, by Dr. Lillian
Gilbreth: perhaps the first
formal study of the
menstrual-hygiene wishes of women |
Gilbreth
report (summary and
discussion, with excerpts) |
| Gräfenberg
Spot (G-spot) An
alleged area in the vagina and
urethra that is very sexually
responsive |
Gräfenberg
Spot, article by Dr. Nelson
Soucasaux |
| Greek (ancient)
menstrual culture and dress |
"Dress, Gender
and the Menstrual Culture of
Ancient Greece," by Amy
Pence-Brown |
| Gynecological
assistance |
The three basic areas: article
by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
Psychosomatic gynecology, article
by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
|
| Hair,
too much on a woman's body |
Hypertrichosis,
Hirsutism and Androgenic
Manifestations in Women by
Dr. Nelson Soucasaux at MUM |
| History of
Menstruation |
Prehistory
of Menstruation (in English)
- (in German): Frühgeschichte
der Menstruation
What did
European and American women use
for menstruation in the past?
The first
Kotex ad campaign, 1921,
with four ads from 1921: January,
May, July, November
How Tampax
tampons began
|
| How much
menstrual "fluid" do
women lose in menstruation? |
Tampax company estimate
(about 1950) - The Dickinson
estimate (Journal of the
American Medical Association, 1945) |
| Huts,
menstrual, and menstrual seclusion |
Dogon
of Mali - Hawaiian -
in India
- Suriname
(discussed by Sally Price, Dittman
Professor of American Studies at the
College of William and Mary) |
| India |
Some menstrual customs, with
suggestions for improved ways of
absorbing menses and education:
Teaching
girls about menstruation and how
to make washable pads, in the
state of Rajasthan, by
MacArthus FLD Fellow Lakshmi
Murthy
Washable
pads for women in Almora, Uttar
Pradesh state, giving them more
freedom, contributed by Dr.
Margaret Greene
See also Report about
contemporary practices (2004): "Menstrual
Hygiene and Management in
Developing Countries: Taking
Stock," November 2004, by
Sowmyaa Bharadwaj and Archana
Patkar
|
| Jokes,
menstrual - main
humor page |
Advertisements
(Freedom, by Kimberly-Clark, in Germany, U.K., and France) -
Dr. Michael
Abramson's poetry - Humor in
Advertising - "If Men Could
Menstruate," by Gloria Steinem
- menstrual
humor in general - Norwegian
joke (in Norwegian, about blondes) |
| Karnaky,
Dr. Karl John |
American doctor who
published an article about using a powder
and
pill inserted into the vagina
to make the menstrual discharge
disappear (1959) |
| Leucorrhea
("the whites") white or colorless
vaginal discharge |
In The Sexual
System and Its Derangements,
by Dr. E. C. Abbey (1882) |
| Letters
(see also much e-mail
in the News,
Notes and You) |
About Pads -
Interesting
ones
to MUM - Letter page |
| Links
to other sites |
NetConnect -
but also see the hundreds of news
updates for links I have not yet
added (I'm overwhelmed) |
| Marie Claire
magazine, Italian edition
(September[?] 2003) |
"Profondo
Rosso," article about
menstruation featuring artists and
products from this Web site; it
discusses this museum and the
culture of menstruation. |
| Masturbation |
In the following: The Science
of a New Life, by John
Cowan, M. D. (1875) - Plain Facts
for Old and Young: Embracing the
Natural History and Hygiene of
Organic Life, by J. H.
Kellogg, M. D. (1892) - Dr. R. V.
Pierce's "Spermatorrhea"
section of The
People's Common Sense Medical
Adviser (63rd edition,
1895) - The
Sexual System and Its
Derangements, by Dr. E. C.
Abbey (1882) - Sexology,
by Prof. William H. Walling, A.M.,
M.D. (1912) - Gynecology,
by Howard A. Kelly, A. B., M.D.,
LL. D. (1928) - Dr. Young's
Improved Rectal Dilators for the
Auxiliary Treatment of Piles and
Constipation (U.S.A.,
1900?-1940?), probably a
masturbation device
And Rachel
Maines wrote an amazing book about doctors'
masturbating their patients,
male and female, as a treatment,
in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries: The Technology
of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the
Vibrator, and Women's Sexual
Satisfaction (Johns
Hopkins Press, 1999) -
|
| Media
(TV, radio, print,
Internet) reaction to MUM |
The Media and
MUM
Maclean's
magazine (Canada): December 2005
story about indefinitely stopping
menstruation, link to article,
three pages on MUM, paragraphs
about MUM director.
|
| Medicine,
Patent Medicine and Medical
Problems with products |
Patent medicines: Cardui -
Dr. Grace
Feder Thompson - Dr. Pierce's
- Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Orange
Blossom - Dr.
Schenck's Mandrake Pills, on
a trade card for journalist Nellie Bly.
Rochester
Patriot newspaper: early
articles about Rely tampon
(1975-76)
|
| Medical
aspects of menstruation, current |
Articles
by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux: Anatomical
drawings - Anovulatory
cycles - Archetypal
aspects of the female genitals
- The
breasts: some morphological
aspects - Colposcopy
- Endocrinology
of
menstruation - The curious
relations between androgens and
estrogens in women - Female sexual
response - Gynecological
assistance: the three basic
areas - Gynecologist
versus obstetrician: what lies
behind the combination? - "Gyneco-obstetric-surgical"
stubborness and the
perpetuation of one of the greatest
mistakes of women's medicine - Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser
(MRKHauser)
Syndrome - Menstrual
toxin: An old name for a real
thing? - Nature
and the ovaries - Oral hormonal
contraceptives (the "Pill") -
The ovaries:
some functional and archetypal
considerations - Peculiarities
of the female genitals' sensory
innervation - Physiology
of menstruation - Polycystic
ovaries syndrome - Premenstrual
congestion of the breasts - Premenstrual
syndrome (PMS) - Psychosomatic
and symbolic aspects of
menstruation - Psychosomatic
gynecology - Symmetric
patterns in the female genitals -
Uninterrupted
use of hormonal contraceptives for
menstrual suppression: why I do
not recommend it - The uterine
cervix - Uterine
contractility - The Uterus and
the female "passive-active" -
Women's
corporeal consciousness and
experience, Women's
Experience of the Breasts,,
and see his Art
of Menstruation |
| Menarche
articles and company booklets
for girls and their parents(whole list).
See also here
for a detailed list. |
"Growing
Up and Liking It" (article
by Lynn Peril) - "Menarche
in America" (article by
Shirley Landis) - Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday (Kotex booklet,
Australia, 1928,
USA 1938)
- Envelope
with return address of Mary
Pauline Callender, author of Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday, etc. -
Preparing
for Womanhood (Kotex, ca.
1928) - How
shall I tell my daughter?
booklets (by Modess) - Growing up
and liking it booklets (by
Modess) - "Before
I Grew Up" - "What a
trained nurse wrote to her young
sister," menarche booklet
(The Personal Products Corp.,
maker of Modess pads, probably
from the late 1930s or early
1940s) - now
you are 10, (Kotex, 1958) -
"The Periodic
Cycle," booklet for older
teenage girls (The Personal
Products Corp., 1938) - "You're a
young lady now" (booklet
from Kotex, U.S.A., 1952)
Average
age at menarche in
various cultures
|
| Menstrual
extraction |
Menstrual
blood extractor - Web
site
about menstrual extraction |
| Menstrual
huts |
Engraving
of hut in Caucasia
- Dogon
of
Mali - Hawaiian
- in India
- New Guinea
carving on hut - Suriname
(discussed by Sally Price, Dittman
Professor of American Studies at the
College of William and Mary) |
| Midol
pain reliever (headache, toothache,
hiccups, menstrual pain) (U.S.A.) See Kurb pain
reliever |
Ads 1911-1961.
Ads (magazine): 1938, 1939, 1948, 1960 -
Midol booklet
(selections), 1959. Slogan
contest, 1911. |
| Mikvah
ritual bath for Orthodox Jews |
Engraving,
of 18th century mikvah - Read also a
book about medieval-to-modern Jewish
menstrual history: "Niddah.
Lorsque les juifs conceptualisent
la menstruation" ("Niddah. When
the Jews conceptualized
menstruation") by Evyatar
Marienberg, 2004 (in French) |
| Miller,
Lee (Life magazine
photographer) |
Appeared
in first
menstrual hygiene ad to use a
real person |
| Miscellaneous |
The Society
for Menstrual Cycle Research
conference (1997) - Tampax sign
(World War II) - Love Mirror
magazine cover (1932) |
| Mosher,
Clelia Duel, M.D. Well-known
American advocate of reducing
menstrual flow, etc. |
Woman's
Physical Freedom, by Clelia
Duel Mosher, M.D., The Woman's
Press, New York City, 1923 |
| Museum
cybertours |
MUM
(static, on this site) - MUM
video (on another site) - Norwegian museum |
| Napkins,
sanitary (sanitary towels, menstrual
pads) |
See Pads and
Washable
pads |
| Nellie
Bly (Elizabeth
Cochrane Seaman) famous American
journalist |
Nellie Bly
trade cards |
| Norwegian
museum exhibit about
menstruation |
Norwegian Museum
(showing the history of the SABA/SCA
Mølnlycke pad company) |
| Nymphomania |
In The Sexual
System and Its Derangements,
by Dr. E. C. Abbey (1882) |
Odor,
pheromones
menstrual, vaginal, etc.
Olor,
Traducido por María
García (Translation of the
MUM odor
page into Spanish by
©María García
2005) |
Animals'
reaction to menstrual odor -
role in
reproduction - Quest
napkin powder (for odor),
Regulation of ovulation by human pheromones
- (in German) "Wenn Frauen
sich riechen können" -
U.S. patent for "vulvar
deodorant system," 1976
Menstrual
synchrony, including Martha
McClintoch's famous article
Menstrual Synchrony and
Suppression, in Science magazine
(1971)
A patent medicine, Orange Blossom
Suppositories: "A deodorant
for unpleasant vaginal odors"
What causes
the odor of menstruation?
|
| Ovary |
Articles by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux:
Nature and
the Ovaries, The Ovaries: Some
Functional and Archetypal
Considerations |
|
Pads (sanitary
napkins, towels, also padettes),
napkin powder. See also
Advertising, above. DIRECTORY of actual pads
and pad ads on this site.
See demonstration that tabs in back
must be longer than those in
front
|
(Partial
list; see Directory
of pads for complete list)
Carefree
panty pads for teens -
Cellu-Ettes (Sears,
1928) - Chinese (Anerle
brand) - Confidets
(U.S.A., 1961-1980s) - Diapers
compared to pads - Early Australian
(c. 1900) - Early German
disposable - Gilbreth
report (1927) to Johnson
& Johnson about improving pads -
inSync
between-the-labia pads ("miniforms")
- Italian
washable (ca. 1890) - Knitted
Norwegian 19th cent. washable pads
(also here)
- Kotex (in
Sears, 1928) (how to
dispose of, 1920s) - Kotex box
1969 (U.S.A.) - Wrapped Kotex
pad for West Disinfecting
Company dispenser (mid 1930s) - Miniform
(formerly
Padettes) (interlabial pads) -
Wrapped
Modess pad for dispenser
(1930s?) - Montgomery Ward catalog,
1924-25 -
New Freedom,
an early beltless pad (American, by
Kotex; box bears a copyright of
1970) - Quest
napkin powder - Ria panty
pads - Venus
pads, traveling package, 1930-1940s
(USA) - Washable
Pads |
| Pain,
menstrual |
PMS,
article by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
Midol ad (1938)
Ads 1911-1961.
Ads (magazine): 1938, 1939, 1948, 1960 -
Midol booklet
(selections), 1959. Slogan
contest, 1911.
Myzone pain pills ad 1952
(Australia) - Spalt-Tabletten
(Germany, 1936)
Kurb pain
reliever from Kotex , newspaper
ads 1936-61
PMS Crunch
snack
In The Sexual
System and Its Derangements,
by Dr. E. C. Abbey (1882) - The Science of
a New Life, by John Cowan, M.
D. (1875)
Readers' remedies
for pain relief
|
| Panties
(women's underpants) |
Complete list of underpants on
this site |
| Panties,
sanitary |
Complete list of underpants on
this site |
| Patent medicine |
Main page
- Dr. Young's
rectal
dilators - Lydia
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
etc. - Cardui
medicine - Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's
letter appealing for patients, and
biography, with documents - Dr. Pierce's
medicines - Dr. E. C. Abbey's The Sexual
System and Its Derangements
(1882) - Orange
Blossom medicine.
Small boxes of
old American patent medicine:
Murray &
Nickell Blue Cohosh Root | Murray &
Nickell Cotton Root Bark | Allaire
Woodward & Co. Oak Bark-White
| Wampole's
Vaginal Cones with Picric Acid
| Humphreys
"31" | Orange
Blossom Suppositories | Dr. Pierce's
Vaginal Tablets | Micajah's
Medicated Wafers | Santrex
Formula 52T | Sedets |
| Pelvis,
woman's |
Examination:
Using doll
(China,19th century)
Sims
position (started 19th
cent.)
The
Touch (le toucher) 19th
cent. U.S.A.
The
gynecologic palpation,
article by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
Showing position of pad during
menstruation and demonstrating
that
attachment tabs in the rear must
be longer than those in the
front (not that you asked)
|
Perú
|
Pre-Columbian bowl from
the Nasca culture on the coast of
Perú, c. 200 BCE - 600 AD,
showing what seems to be a menstruating
vagina. |
| Pessary and
prolapse of the uterus |
The uterus can
protrude from the vagina and a
pessary can hold it in; photographs |
| Pheromones and odor |
Animals'
reaction to menstrual odor -
role in
reproduction - Quest
napkin powder (for odor),
Regulation of ovulation by human pheromones
- (in German) "Wenn Frauen
sich riechen können" -
U.S. patent for "vulvar
deodorant system," 1976
Menstrual
synchrony, including Martha
McClintoch's famous article
Menstrual Synchrony and
Suppression, in Science magazine
(1971)
|
| Physiology
of menstruation, current ideas |
Article
by Brazilian gynecologist Dr. Nelson
Soucasaux |
| (The) "Pill"
(meaning the birth control pill, an
oral hormonal contraceptive) |
Enovid-E,
1964, physician's professional
sample
Oral
hormonal contraceptives,
article by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
Site-visitors' opinions
intermingled in other discussions
in the discussion of stopping
menstruation with birth control
pills and by other means.
Uninterrupted
use of hormonal contraceptives
for menstrual suppression: why I
do not recommend it, by
Brazilian gynecologist Dr. Nelson
Soucasaux
|
| PMS
(Premenstrual syndrome), current
ideas |
Article by
Brazilian gynecologist Dr. Nelson
Soucasaux
Premenstrual
congestion of the breasts,
article by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
|
| Poetry,
Songs see complete list
here |
Poems by
Michael Abramson, M.D. - "timeless,"
poem by Joe Davis - "A Death in the
Family," by Ellaraine Lockie |
| Polycystic
ovaries syndrome |
Article by
Lynn Dunning - Article by
Dr. Nelson Soucasaux |
| Pre-Columbian
bowl (menstruating
vagina) |
From the Nasca
culture on the coast of
Perú, c. 200 BCE - 600 AD |
| Profuse
menstruation |
In The Sexual
System and Its Derangements,
by Dr. E. C. Abbey (1882) - The Science of
a New Life, by John Cowan, M.
D. (1875) |
| Prolapse of the
uterus & pessary |
The uterus can
protrude from the vagina and a
pessary can hold it in; photographs |
| Psychology (see also item
below) |
Women's
corporal consciousness and
experience, article by Dr.
Nelson Soucasaux |
Psychosomatic
and Symbolic Aspects of
Menstruation
|
Article
by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
Psychosomatic gynecology, Article
by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
|
Rectal
dilators
|
Dr. Young's
Improved Rectal Dilators for the
Auxiliary Treatment of Piles and
Constipation
(U.S.A., 1900?-1940?) |
|
Religion
and menstruation
Religión
y menstruación
(Religion and Menstruation in
Spanish)
|
Books
about menstruation and religion - Religion and
Menstruation: e-mail exchanges
- Leviticus
15 (Old Testament) and verses
from Luke,
Matthew and Mark |
| Remedies
for menstrual problems, your |
Your remedies |
| Reports
about MUM |
Television,
Radio, Newspapers, Magazines,
Books - Letters
- Comedy
Central - Sylvia
comic strip - The
Village Voice (New York City) |
|
Safety
of tampons, pads, sponges,
menstrual cups, douching
Seguridad
de productos para la
menstruación
|
Products
safety
Tampax's defense: "Are Vaginal
Tampons Prejudicial to Health?"
(Proof for a British Tampax ad,
1952)
1930s criticism
of douching with Zonite and Lysol.
The Perils
of Vaginal Douching (essay
by Luci Capo Rome)
The report
by Dr. Dickinson (1945) in the
Journal of the American Medical
Association about the safety of
tampons and comparing pads and
tampons. Dickinson was associated
with Tampax.
Criticism of the Rely tampon,
later associated with toxic shock
syndrome, from a tiny Rochester,
New York, newspaper (1975-76).
|
| Sales pamphlets,
etc., for sellers of menstrual
products |
How to
sell Kotex (page for trade
publications, probably early
1920s, U.S.A.)
"Your Image
is Your Fortune!," Modess
sales-hints booklet for stores,
1967 (U.S.A.)
|
| Sanitary apron |
American,
1914, based on Sears, Roebuck
model
Box for
FORM-FIT sanitary apron, U.S.A.,
1900-1920?
|
Scientific
and medical news
items
See also the medical articles by
Nelson Soucasaux
(below) |
The Science of
Menstruation page - Product safety |
| Sculpture |
Sculpture of the female
pelvis for Tampax
Incorporated, used on an
educational chart, probably 1940s.
Sculptured bowl showing a
menstruating vulva from the Nasca
culture (on the coast of
Perú), c. 200 BCE - 600 AD
|
| Seasonale
proposed 90-day pill package
suppressing menstruation for three
months, by Barr Laboratories (August
2000) |
Short discussion |
| Sex
during menstruation |
Is
it safe? |
| Sexual response
(female) |
Article
by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux |
| Shame
in menstrual hygiene advertising |
Kotex (1992) -
Pursettes (1974)
- Shame in
advertising |
| Sponges,
menstrual, contraceptive and for
introducing medicine into the vagina |
World War II (?)
sponge with case - undated sponges with
container - Anna
Health
Sponge and container |
| Steinem,
Gloria |
"If Men Could
Menstruate" (funny article) |
| Sterility |
In The Sexual
System and Its Derangements,
by Dr. E. C. Abbey (1882) |
|
|
Opinions sent in by visitors to
this site
Maclean's
magazine (Canada): December 2005
story about indefinitely stopping
menstruation, link to article,
three pages on MUM, paragraphs
about MUM director.
|
| Stopes, Maria
Carmichael, D.Sc.,
London; Ph.D., Munich, founder of
the first
birth control clinic in the
British Empire. Readers of the
Guardian newspaper, in the United
Kingdom, voted Dr. Stopes "Woman
of
the Millennium." |
Married
Love, first
American
edition allowed by censors,
published in 1931 by G.P. Putnam's
Sons, New York (The Knickerbocker
Press) |
| Stopping or
suppressing menstruation |
Seasonale,
seeking FDA approval to stop
menstruation for three month periods
(August 2000) |
| Surveys |
A student at a large public
university in the United States
conducted a small survey among
students and others about their
knowledge and use of alternative
menstrual products: read the 2004
survey and the results.
Read the Gilbreth
Report, which surveyed
American college and high school
girls in the mid-1920s.
|
| Symbolism
of menstruation |
Article
by Dr. Nelson Soucasaux - also his Archetypal
Aspects of the Female Genitals |
| Synchrony,
menstrual (women living together
menstruating together) |
Part of
the menstrual
odor discussion - the article
(from Nature) Menstrual
synchrony and suppression" by
Martha McClintock (1971) - Pheromones
influence
the menstrual cycle (K. Stern
and Martha McClintock, 1998, a
summary from Nature magazine) |
| Talk:
my experiences with the museum |
Getting Personal |
Tampax
Bulletins (U.S.A.), probably
from the 1950s, answering 19
frequently asked questions
|
|
| Tampons see
complete list - See
also Advertising, above |
Colleens:
"New Internal Sanitary Protection"
(1961) - Early
commercial tampons (fax,
Fibs, Tampax, Wix, Nunap, Slim-pax,
Nappons, Moderne Women) - Earliest
history of tampon - "The Dickinson
Report" (article comparing
pads and tampons, 1945, based on
JAMA article) - ad for Elldy tampons
(Japan, 1996) - Freedom box
(Kimberly-Clark, France) - Lil-lets
(South Africa, 1978) - Japanese tampon
with finger cots - Meds: main page with
tampon, instructions 1,
instructions
2 - Nunap
(fax in disguise?) - Pursettes,
tampon, box and tote - Rely tampon -
Rochester
Patriot newspaper: early
articles about Rely tampon (1975-76)
- Russian
tampon - Shampon
Young tampons (Japan, 1977) -
Syngyna
(instrument for testing tampon
absorption capacity) - San-Nap-Pak
tampon ad - Tampax
sign (World War II) - first
tampon
with applicator, 1931-33? box, tampon,
instructions - (1936)
Tampax box,
tampon, patent,
ad , instructions,
dealer's instructions,
dealers' advisory |
Tampon and Other
Products Safety
Asbestos, dioxin, viscose rayon,
toxic shock
See also the Tampax
Bulletins the company
published around 1950 |
Dr. Philip
Tierno, Jr. answers
questions
"Are
Vaginal Tampons Prejudicial to
Health?" (Proof for a
British Tampax ad, 1952)
|
| Tampon
Safety and Research Acts of 1997
and 1999, H.R. 2900
and 890 |
Discussion - Statement by
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, the
sponsor |
| Teachers'
materials |
Teacher's kit
from Modess: "Educational Portfolio
on Menstrual Hygiene" (early 1950s) |
| Testing
tampons and pads |
Syngyna
(instrument for testing tampon
absorption capacity) |
| The Touch |
See Examination |
| Third World
countries,
menstruation in |
Report about
contemporary practices (2004): "Menstrual
Hygiene and Management in
Developing Countries: Taking
Stock," November 2004, by
Sowmyaa Bharadwaj and Archana Patkar |
| Toys |
Kotex boxes for a doll house |
| Travelers' boxes
for pads and tampons |
Here |
| Underwear,
menstrual & regular, belts,
aprons, underpants, etc. Complete list of
women's underpants on this site |
Very
short history, 1700-1900
APRONS
(1914 Sears)
(1928
Sears) - Box
for Form-Fit
sanitary apron - BELTS
(ads: Sears, Roebuck 1902, 1928,
1946-47)
(Modern
belts)(washable)
(Modess,
1960s) (real: 1945, "Classic")
(packaging:
before 1930, "Tru-Fit") -
Ad for Hickory
sanitary napkin belts
(1920s?) - (Japanese
ads, early 20th century) -
Montgomery Ward catalog, 1924-25
- miscellaneous packaging -
SUSPENDERS
(various ads
and how suspenders worked) THONGS
panty
pad to be used with a thong,
from SCA (1999) - Tampax tampon
ad promoting use with thongs - UNDERPANTS (non-menstrual):
Complete list of those on
this site, (open-crotch
drawers, U.S.A., 1890s) (first
brief, Sears, 1935) (actual
SheShells
underpants, 1970s) - "SANITARY"
UNDERPANTS, i.e., menstrual (Sears,
1928, 1946-47)
(bloomers,
Sears, 1922) (step-in,
Hickory, 1928) (Modess,
1960s) - Montgomery Ward
catalog, 1924-25
- (actual Modess
"Sanitary Shield,"1972) (Japanese,
ads from early 20th century) -
actual Pursettes
tampon panty (1968)
|
| Unusual |
Wax anatomical
figure (18th century) - Halloween
costume made from menstrual
pads and tampons - Dress made
from Instead menstrual cups, made
and worn on certain occasions by the
inventor of the cup; donated to this
museum |
| Uterus
(womb) |
Problems: in The Sexual
System and Its Derangements,
by Dr. E. C. Abbey (1882)
The uterine
cervix, Uterine
contractility, articles by
Dr. Nelson Soucasaux
|
| Washable
pads |
General
subject - German pattern
for making pads at home, ca. 1900 -
Proposal for a German
washable pad and belt, 1894 -
India (in
Almora, Uttar Pradesh state) - 19th
century Italian
- early 20th Japanese,
with instructions for making
at home, successor of the pony,
or uma -19th century Norwegian
- Contemporary pattern
for home sewing, - Snap-on
- With underpants
- With belt
- Sears, Roebuck, 1908 (USA)
- Were there special
laudries for washable
menstrual pads in the U.S.A.? |
| Wave, menstrual |
An apt 19th and early
20th description
of the effect of hormones on a
woman's body during the menstrual
cycle. |
| "Woman to woman"
named women as spokepeople for, or
somehow representing, companies |
Woman
to woman (Mrs. Barton
for Fems, 1921, U.S.A.; Schwester
Thekla for Camelia, 1920s?,
Germany)
Mary
Pauline Callender,
author of the Marjorie May
menarche booklets for girls, for
Kotex
|
| Words
and expressions for menstruation |
List:
U.S.A. and many other countries |
|
|
Opinions sent in by visitors to
this site |
|