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Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik
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Menstruation is having a moment, but this isn't the first generation to claim a MODERN attitude to periods. This booklet from the 1950s illustrates how things have and have not
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There's always been a lot of creativity in menstrual advertising. In the 1970s, this was cause for concern. In 1977, a UK House of Commons commission on menstrual product prices
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Prior to the normalisation of disposable menstrual products, many people relied on homemade options. In Scandinavia knitted options were used, often knitted at school. These were DIY technologies relying on
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This year, the 'tampon-tax' ended in the UK. But this is not the first time Conservatives have been interested in menstrual products. Here's PM Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, with
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After WWII, this bus toured rural Norway selling disposable SABA-pads. It was a pretty brilliant guerrilla-marketing tactic for the time. The SABA factory was founded after the war, and was
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Have you ever seen an ad like this? I've been writing about the 'blue goo' menstrual product advertising trope, and thought I'd share some findings in the hope of connecting
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