二十世紀初衛生棉產業的興起對美國女性帶來許多面向的改變，衛生棉的發明與量產不僅為女性生理期帶來全新的體驗與生活型態，衛生棉公司所發行的商業月經教育手冊也一定程度影響了美國女性的月經知識與態度。
月經知識的傳遞從女性親屬間，屬於女性私領域的的私相授受，到了十九世紀口耳相傳的知識獲取逐漸轉變為書籍、手冊的閱讀，男性科學家、醫師漸漸排擠母親、女性親屬位置，成為主要的月經知識來源，迨衛生棉產業興起後，亦加入月經教育者的行列，在醫療體系與商業市場的作用下將月經由私領域推向公領域。
本文以衛生棉公司針對青少女在1920年代至1950年代間所發行的商業月經教育手冊為主要分析對象，歸納出商業月經教育手冊在社會觀感、科學醫療及商業利益等因素的互動過程下，形成手冊特殊的教育內容。本文更進一步探討月經教育手冊中的教育特點，隨著衛生棉產業成為主要的月經教育者之一時，討論這些特色可能對於美國女性造成何種行為上及態度的改變，並在衛生棉產業的建構下，形塑出另一套新的、商業價值下的月經觀念形態。

This thesis discusses the role of sanitary products industry and how the industry influenced American women's attitudes about menstruation in the twentieth century. I use the booklets which were published by the sanitary products companes as the main materials of this thesis. Through the analyses of thesed booklets, I discovered that there were particular emphases of menstrual education. Hence when the commercial booklets became important resource of menstrual education, the concepts which the industry had converyed would affect how women dealed with menstruation.

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網路資源(按字母及筆劃順序排列)
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