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Chicago Through The Flower Analysis

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Additionally, In Chicago’s book Through the Flower she writes about how the Fresno Art Program began and her own realization that she needed more than to just want to become an artist in order to be one. She describes the process she went through in the attempt to create a space in which women would feel safe to express their opinions without the interference of men. Chicago states that it wasn’t that the men were necessarily saying or doing anything to make the women feel unable to speak freely, but rather, she says, “their presence reminded the women of society’s tacit and all-pervasive instruction that they should not be too aggressive, so that the men’s egos would not be threatened.” (Chicago 1167) Once Judy felt sure that this would create
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