"Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas
Black Power Action Films

Explores the typical, sexualized, subordinate positioning of women in low-budget blaxploitation action narratives as well as more seriously radical films like "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" and "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", in which black women are typically portrayed as trifling bitches compared to the supermacho black male heroes.

""Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas" also engages blaxploitation's impact and lingering aura in contemporary hip-hop culture as suggested by its disturbing gender politics and the "baad bitch daughters" of Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones, rappers Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown.