Gender in maid cafes, maid performance, rituals and agency : an account of a maid cafe in Singapore.

• Main Author: Chen, Yingzhuang.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48253
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Maid Cafe is a recent phenomenon which boomed along with the Japanese animation wave, where girls from Japan are associated with the term kawaii (cute). When these two come together, the Maid Café becomes a place where kawaii females serve their customers like maids serving their masters. This s...