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| Red Flag, 1971, Photo Lithograph, 51x61 cm (20x24 in), Judy Chicago |
'"Offensiveness" played a potent part in destroying femininity and female beauty...for Judy Chicago, in her notorious Red Flag, a photo lithograph of herself from the waist down pulling out a bloody tampon.
Germaine Greer Suggested that to overcome disgust for one's menstrual blood, a woman should taste it. In order to overturn femininity, feminist artists necessarily flouted good taste and feminine respectability by pointedly showing women's desire for sexual and cultural power, manifested... by breaking the taboo ladylike purity. Red Flag takes a female bodily process out of obscurity; it is interesting to note that some viewers saw the tampon as an image of castration, which shows how much the eye has been socially and culturally educated to not see the reality of women's bodies.'
- Joanna Frueh, 'The Body Through Women's Eyes', 1994
Red Flag takes a female bodily process out of obscurity; it is interesting to note that some viewers saw the tampon as an image of castration, which shows how much the eye has been socially and culturally educated to not see the reality of women's bodies.' can you please give the page number?
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