Sheela

What’s obvious is this: Relics called Sheela Na Gigs have been found all over Ireland, France, Scotland, Wales, and England although the greatest concentration is found in Ireland, dated approximately 1200-1400 C.E. They are images of women crouching to expose their regenerative members in a blatant display of female power—the power of birth and, by association, of death and rebirth.

Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

What’s obvious is this: Relics called Sheela Na Gigs have been found all over Ireland, France, Scotland, Wales, and England although the greatest concentration is found in Ireland, dated approximately 1200-1400 C.E. They are images of women crouching to expose their regenerative members in a blatant display of female power—the power of birth and, by association, of death and rebirth.

Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

Sheela Sathyanarayana, an environmental health pediatrician at Seattle Children's Hospital and an assistant professor at the University of Washington, says she's seen kids become "extremely sensitized" from formaldehyde exposures.

Group finds carcinogens in kids bath products 2009

Most unmarried couples who live together will split up or get married within two years, said Sheela Kennedy, a University of Minnesota demographer who studies cohabitation.

In economic downturn, an uptick in couples living together before marriage Jeremy Olson 2010

Not only a chocolate “Venus of Willendorf” but a chocolate Sheela na Gig.

Chocolate gounache ganache Ganesh | clusterflock 2009

Sheela Maini Søgaard, BIG's chief executive, who joined the firm in August 2008, describes projects like the library as "more of an investment than an income generator."

Bjarke Ingels's BIG Ambitions J. S. Marcus 2011

Davos veterans include Sheela Patel, founder of SPARC in India and Slum Dwellers International which works with informal economies across 22 countries

Abigail Noble: The Power of Social Innovation Abigail Noble 2012

Sheela Maini Søgaard, BIG's chief executive, who joined the firm in August 2008, describes projects like the library as "more of an investment than an income generator."

Bjarke Ingels's BIG Ambitions J. S. Marcus 2011

The obit that made the most impression on me was yet another "I remember" piece from a reader, about Sheela Basrur, a doctor and public servent who was Ontario's public face during the 2003 SARS crisis.

feeling a bit old, and not. da_lj 2008

Sheela offers many delicious ways to use this spread.

Archive 2008-07-01 Nupur 2008