It featured work from artist across many media, including photo, painting, sculpture, performance, film, comics, advertisements, writings and more.
"The show includes drawings for feminist cartoons like Lynda Barry's God's Gift and Jennifer Camper's If Men Got Pregnant.
Tanner also curated a sister show Bad Girls West at the UCLA Wight Gallery in Los Angeles.
Marcia Tucker writes, "The work that particularly fascinated me and pushed me to rethink a lot of old issues had two characteristics in common.
The ability of a carnavalesque sensibility to subvert norms and to turn the world on end can be a powerful weapon in feminist critiques and artworks and was used as such in the Bad Girls Exhibition.
In an interview in Paradoxa, Marcia Tucker stated, "I decided to open up the territory usually assigned to 'Bad Girls' to include men whose work also resists power and authority, and subverts social and cultural stereotypes in a feminist way.
In my opinion, laughter is the first and finest form of self-criticism, and, when used by artists as a feminist tool, it can very effectively challenge even the biases which feminism itself sometimes constructs.
Roberta Smith, writing for The New York Times, states, "Disappointment awaits anyone who approaches 'Bad Girls' for a reasonably accurate view of the new, angrily ironic feminist art – made by women, not children or men."
[4][8] Despite the abundant negative reviews many critics praised the work for taking on a subject which had not yet been tackled by any of the larger museums, and in a unique and novel way.