Books like Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers by Guerrilla Girls

Guided by the Guerrilla Girls, this book offers a cheeky yet insightful tour of 2,000 years of Western art, highlighting the overlooked contributions and challenges faced by women artists throughout history.

Since 1985, a group of anonymous women wearing gorilla masks and brandishing glue brushes have taken zap actions at the art world's "stale, male, Yale" establishment. Their wonderfully smart-ass posters (example: "Advantages of being a woman artist: Working without the pressure of success, knowing your career might pick up after you're eighty...") have bedecked city walls, converted elitist curators, become collector's items, and even found their way into museum collections. Their work - and this book - offers proof that humor is a great, blunt-edged weapon against evil. The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of female artists and art-world professionals. Their largest contingent is in New York, but they have also been sighted all over the United States, across Europe, and wherever truth, justice, and the American way of discrimination still prevail.

"The Newly Born Woman" by Hélène Cixous explores feminist psychoanalysis, the politics of language, and sex differences, revealing how women’s writing reshapes gendered discourse.