Bad Girls & Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art Culture: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture

""Bad Girls and Sick Boys is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride, a superb piece of cultural investigation that skillfully anatomies some of the most deviant imaginations at work today."--J. G. Ballard
"Linda Kauffman is the perfect guide through the troubling, erotically charged cultural environment she maps in "Bad Girls and Sick Boys. She handles popular culture with sophistication and intelligence and addresses academic subjects with an engaging flair. Kauffman is alert, informed, clear-eyed, and most of all, entirely free of cant."--Anthony De Curtis
"Linda Kauffman is one of our most brilliant, savvy, and exciting observers of contemporary life. "Bad Girls and Sick Boys is both tremendously entertaining and disturbing. Linda Kauffman's meditations on art, pornography, cinema, and literature fly powerfully against the grain of convention."--Howard Norman