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The Spanish journalist who contributed some
words for menstruation to this site last year and wrote about this museum
(MUM) in the Madrid newspaper "El País" just co-authored
with her daughter a book about menstruation (cover at left).
She writes, in part,
Dear Harry Finley,
As I told you, my daughter (Clara de Cominges) and I have written a
book (called "El tabú") about menstruation, which
is the first one to be published in Spain about that subject. The
book - it talks about the MUM - is coming out at the end of March and I
just said to the publisher, Editorial Planeta, to contact you and send you
some pages from it and the cover as well. I'm sure that it will be interesting
to you to have some information about the book that I
hope has enough sense of humour to be understood anywhere. Thank
you for your interest and help.
If you need anything else, please let me know.
Best wishes,
Margarita Rivière
Belen Lopez, the editor of nonfiction at Planeta, adds that "Margarita,
more than 50 years old, and Clara, 20, expose their own experiences about
menstruation with a sensational sense of humour." (Later this month
more information
will appear on the publisher's site, in Spanish.)
My guess is that Spaniards will regard the cover as risqué, as
many Americans would. And the book, too. But, let's celebrate!
Two weeks ago I mentioned that Procter
& Gamble was trying to change attitudes in the Spanish-speaking
Americas to get more women to use tampons, specifically Tampax - a hard
sell.
Compare this cover with the box cover for the Canadian television video
about menstruation, Under Wraps, and the second
The Curse.
An American network is now developing a program about menstruation
for a popular cable channel; some folks from the network visited me recently
to borrow material.
And this museum lent historical tampons and ads
for a television program in Spain last year.
Now, if I could only read Spanish! (I'm a former German teacher.)
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