from early 13c. Mathematical sense is from 1550s. Philological sense from 1520s. Slang meaning "penis" is recorded from 1846. In African-American vernacular use, "a spell effected by magical properties of roots," by 1935. The sense of "person considered as the source or offspring of a fa...
veins in the vagina is that ‘the flowers [menstrual periods] must not onely come out of the womb, but out of the neck of the womb also’ (Anon., 1656). These anatomical understandings held into the eighteenth century when John Freind, author of the first monograph on menstruation, descr...
While Kahlo never explicitly worked with menstruation as a theme, the image of blood is prevalent throughout her oeuvre, perhaps because she was exposed to many scenes of blood and gore in her life. Kahlo introduces us to the depiction of uterine blood through works such asHenry Ford Hospital...
However, rather than attending simply to the literary appropriateness of the son in the pericope, we actually focus attention on the son in the text, as well as on the mother and child and the mother and deity, and to the affects being transmitted and flowing between them. In light of ...