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vagina
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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vagina canal connecting vulva with uterus XVII; sheath, theca XVIII. — L.
vāgīna sheath, scabbard.
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VAGINA ON THE LOOSE: The social dynamics of freeing a word
Newspaper article from: Santa Fe Reporter; 2/4/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...educated and even liberated by The Vagina Monologues. This is likely...the tribe of women to take vagina and to make it their own in...become more comfortable with vaginas and with women talking about...whether they rush out to see The Vagina Monologues or not. The cause...
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'Vagina Monologues' crowd Torp Theatre at Central Connecticut State U.
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/2/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...what would it say, if your vagina got dressed, what would it wear and what does a vagina smell like? The responses...wet garbage" --smelling vaginas in everything from "a pinafore...to "a slicker." "The Vagina Monologues" was confessional...
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'Vagina Monologues' to be performed
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/14/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...feel about their vaginas, 25 women will be...performances of "The Vagina Monologues," Eve...often pretend her vagina was a silk handkerchief...loved to look at vaginas, that she came to...for not only having vaginas, but for being female...like they use the vagina as a symbol for ...
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'Vagina Monologues' influence Syracuse U. students
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/13/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Center stage: 25 vaginas form a semicircle...Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues will be...saleswoman these weren't vagina-friendly. She...thing is -- angry vaginas don't wear pink...fiery red top. Angry vaginas wear red, she insists...the director of The Vagina Monologues. Ruling...
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'Vagina Monologues' speak out at Northwestern U.
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/11/2000; ; 698 words
; ...author of "The Vagina Monologues," interviewed...beautiful, fabulous" vaginas before writing the play, Towey said. "The Vagina Monologues" includes...helped women love their vaginas," the monologue describes Bob, a vagina connoisseur, whose...
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Vagina is not a dirty word.(Columns)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 4/15/2002; 700+ words
; ...billboards advertising a local run of "The Vagina Monologues" from April 30 to May 5. I offer...Off"). I say, Virginia - Does that say "vagina"? Up on that billboard? It does say "vagina"! Virginia - "vagina"!? I'm having...
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My vagina is coming!(CREATIVE WRITING)(Poem)
Magazine article from: Sister Namibia; 3/1/2007; ; 638 words
; ...world over has a vagina's face Vaginas do all the work...all the harvest Vaginas cook all the food...all the meal My vagina is revolting My...diminished each time a vagina perishes? A combined force of 6 billion vaginas and penises walk...
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All Vagina, All the Time.(Review)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...shot in Hustler. All vagina, all the time. WHERE...monologuists that they and their vaginas are one and the same...me that it was me, my vagina: It was who I was...as an affront to the vagina, is to minimize it...had to learn to talk vaginas. I come from the same...
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'Vagina Monologues' presented to fight violence at Brown U.
News Wire article from: University Wire; 2/11/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...over 200 women. "The Vagina Monologues" is the first installment of the Vagina Events, a series of...from brief facts about vaginas, to complex scenes about...suggested that talking about vaginas could help women to overcome...the evening in "The Vagina Workshop." Her monologue...
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'Vagina Monologues' stars playwright in Boston
News Wire article from: University Wire; 1/14/2002; ; 626 words
; ...stool to talk about vaginas. Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, playing...women about their vaginas and their sexual...interviews into 18 vagina monologues. The...loved to look at vaginas, to a monologue titled My Angry Vagina, which rants about...
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vagina
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
vagina is the Latin word for ‘sheath...the space for the hand. Comparably, the vagina is a tube which can be considered as part...continuous with the skin. The opening of the vagina at the vulva is initially partly covered...
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"Vagina Dentata," Fantasy of
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
"VAGINA DENTATA," FANTASY OF The fantasy of "vagina dentata" (teeth in the vagina) is a horrifying image of the female genitals that derives from the sexual theories of children. It displaces from the oral cavity to the vagina a threat that...
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Vagina Monologues, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Vagina Monologues, The (1999), a monodrama by Eve Ensler. [Westside Theatre, 1,0001 perf.] Ensler interviewed dozens of women...
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Pelvic Relaxation
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...to sag and press into the wall of the vagina. Description The pelvic floor normally...and the bladder in position above the vagina. When the pelvic floor becomes stretched...damaged, these organs can sag into the vagina, sometimes bulging out through the vaginal...
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Colporrhaphy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers
...cystocele (when the bladder protrudes into the vagina) and a rectocele (when the rectum protrudes into the vagina). Purpose A prolapse occurs when an organ...protrusion or prolapse of the bladder into the vagina; a urethrocele is the prolapse of the...
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