HISA06H3 Chapter : THE CAFÉ WAITRESS SANG THE BLUES.docx
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The caf waitress sang the blues: jap c. w was the working class embodiment of the modern girl as such she sang the blues. Modern girl was defined as promiscuous and autonomous for 2 reasons: 1. Women were now on the streets as workers and women demanding rights: 2. Coexisting agency of the cafe waitress as both contained and resisting within a capitalist culture wherein she is both consumer-subject and commodified sex object, and of highlighting her subjectivity as possessed of sexualized, erotic impulses. Jap jokyu"s words and actions voiced her experience of the erotics of male and female acting out of presumptions and fantasies of gendered domination. She was eroticized by others, as working class (or colonized) sex worker within. Japanese history and as expressing her own version of eroticism. Jokyu participated in erotic relationships inside and outside of the caf . M. g was more important as an ideological construct than as an actual index of middle-class consumerism.
