A bad bitch is a strong, sexualized, self-reliant and materialistic woman. In hip hop culture, the term bitch may "signify a hardcore woman who makes money and proudly flaunts her sexual libido and sexuality" and a woman who can hold her own with rap's gangsta thugs. In Sister Souljah's 1999 novel The Coldest Winter Ever, Winter's mother is a self-proclaimed "bad bitch". In her book Black Sexual Politics, Patricia Hill Collins writes that she regards Souljah's depiction of a bad bitch as one of the best descriptions.