After looking at the general Feminist Art Movement I came across The Guerrilla Girls - they were a group of anonymous feminist artists in formed in 1985 that were devoted to fighting sexism and racism inside the art world. The members were know for wearing gorilla masks so to keep their identity a secret since they believed that their identity was not what matters but it is issue that they wanted to focus on the issues and not the individual personality of their own work.
Using the gorilla as a symbol stemmed from a spelling error of the groups name - but it stuck since the gorilla covers the groups message in several ways. The Gorilla in popular culture is seen as a King-Kong like source of power with great strength - but there are other popular images of caged/trapped and tamed apes - which is seen as representation representative of women's position in soicety.
A Gorilla i also typically associated with masculinity and by placing a fierce gorilla head on a Odalisque is a way of detracts the male gaze and changes the way viewers look and understand the image - it questions female beauty with Western Art. (Odalisque - female slave or concubine in the Ottoman/Turkish sultan.)
They organised protests, created posters, stickers billboard and artwork which all used the statistics
They researched into the unfair conditions of working women artists and artists of colour using statistical data they gathered about gender inequality with the New York City art scene
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