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Chapter 16, when Kate, the madam of a brothel, refers to the working girls as "chickenheads." She says, "The chickenheads were in the kitchen, getting ready for their night's work. Kate had them all lined up, inspecting their clothes and hair. She was a short, stout woman with a face like a hatchet. She looked at each girl carefully and then said, 'All right, chickenheads, you're all set.' The second use is in Chapter 44, when Cathy Ames, a prostitute, refers to herself as a "chickenhead." She says, "I'm a chickenhead, and I'm proud of it. I'm the best there is."
156:, she notes the derogatory tendency of the term "chickenhead", and further defines it as a woman who uses sex to achieve the things she wants. As a black, hip-hop feminist, Morgan offers that chickenheads simply use the tools afforded to them when other means are not efficient, and that all women may have something to learn from the use of sexual power.
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note that "A favorite rap term is 'chickenhead,' which reduces a woman to a bobbing head giving oral sex." Bakari
Kitwana argues that many rappers refer to women, black women in particular, with demeaning terms names such as "bitches, gold diggers, hoes, hoodrats, chickenheads, pigeons, and so on."
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Use of the term "chickenhead" predates this and extends across the demographic makeup of
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American literature is in John Steinbeck's 1952 novel East of Eden. In the novel, the term is used to refer to the working girls of a brothel. There are two uses of the term "chickenhead" in John Steinbeck novels. Both uses are in East of Eden.
50:. More recent uses of the term have seen it taken back by hip hop feminists and entertainers as a symbol of sexuality and power. "Chickenhead" is also a term used in overseas sex trafficking for individuals that facilitate and monitor a person's transition into sex work.
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A chickenhead in the transnational sex trade is typically responsible for facilitating transportation, acquiring temporary lodging, and monitoring activities of the new sex worker, similar to the activities of a "pimp".
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manner toward women. The term mocks the motion of the head while performing oral sex on a man, but contains social characteristics and cultural relevance as well, and is frequently heard in popular
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