Steph’s resistance as hostess in confronting the power of club’s management in Susanna Quinn’s Glass Geishas

In this study, the researcher analyses Glass Geishas novel by Susanna Quinn. The study focuses on analyzing the problem of hostess life in workplace as class conflict phenomenon and the resistance of hostess which is represented by Steph as class struggle to the power club’s management. The aims of this thesis are to describe the hostess problem and resistance in confronting the power of the club’s manager. To answer the problem, this research uses Marxist feminism approach and resistance theory to analyze the struggle of Steph as main character in the novel. The result of the study shows that hostess has many problems in their working place, such as abuse, financial problem, and illegal working and those problems cause them to confront the power of club’s management to get their right back.