Although these heroines were women not to be trifled with, they paradoxically performed hyper-femininity and hyper-masculinity - simultaneously acting as lethal action heroines and sex objects. The early to mid-’70s was an exciting time for Blaxploitation there was an influx of films like Cleopatra Jones, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Sheba, Baby that introduced leading Black women into the predominantly male genre.
