식민지 근대 카페 여급의 정치경제학적 위치성과 정체성에 관한 연구

Abstract

This research examines how the identity of cafe waitress is different from the identity of New woman in the 1930's of colonial Korea. While this research focuses upon political economy and positioning of cafe waitress, it will show how cafe waitresses socially construct their agency. The specific question of this research as follows, Firstly, This paper investigates the relationship between identity of cafe waitress as a social worker and the context of political economy in the 1930's. Secondly, this research points out how cafe waitresses identify themselves as an agency in the space of cafe based upon their own voice. As a result, this research found that firstly, cafe waitresses constitutes of not the united class and group but the diverse class and status and their position is socially constructed in relation to the culture and structure of consumption in colonial Korea. Secondly, the identity of cafe waitress is characterized as a social worker distinguished from identity of new woman. Therefore, this result critically demonstrates that the male-dominant discourse not only which new women are defined as a sexual object but also which cafe waitress are stigmatized as a prostitutes or a streetwalker. In conclusion, cafe waitresses are located in the context of political economy distinguished from new women. Arguably, they should be re-conceptualized as a professional woman in the colonial modern Korea.