Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index
Introduction - Race, gender, and Black action fantasy -- - The pleasure of looking : black female spectatorship and the supermama heroine -- - Black power and the new baad cinema -- - What's sex and women got to do with it? : sexual politics and revolution in Sweetback and The spook -- - Race, gender, and sexual power in Cleopatra Jones -- - Sexing the supermama : racial and gender power in Coffy and Foxy Brown -- - Afterword - Superbaad for the twenty-first-century screen
