The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art and the Introduction of After the Revolution. Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art. You are to write an essay focusing on these readings. The title of your essay is: ‘The Institutional Obstacles that Women Have Faced Historically in their Goal to become an Artist’. Your essay is to include examples of five (5) women who overcame the obstacles placed before them to become professional women artists. The length of your essay is 1500 words.