- Paperback: 349 pages
- Publisher: Sage Publications (April 14 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0761936483
- ISBN-13: 978-0761936480
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 17.3 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #502,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Shahani's Gay Bombay traces the modern and the old with charming first person. This book takes you to the television studios, the editing rooms, the dance floors, the chat rooms and the private parlours to discover gay Bombay in all its subtle victories, intimate vibrancy and surprising diversity." - Wendell Rodricks. "Parmesh Shahani is an original. !This book will inspire and provoke many interested in understanding the intersections between sexuality, globalization, and new media." - Henry Jenkins, Author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. "Gay Bombay is a must-read! Shifting seamlessly through the personal, the Gay Bombay community, the national and the transnational, the book gives the reader unique understanding into what is means to be gay and Indian." - Jyoti Puri, Director, Graduate Program in Gender/Cultural Studies, Simmons College. "Gay Bombay is a path-breaking study of homosexuality in modern Bombay/Mumbai that will be essential reading for students of gender and sexuality." - Rachel Dwyer, Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema, University of London
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Using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis, and memoir writing, the author provides macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay at a particular point in time. Specifically, he explores what being gay means to members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate locality and globalization, their sense of identity as well as a feeling of community within its online/offline world. On a broader level, he critically examines the formulation and reconfiguration of contemporary Indian gayness in the light of its emergent cultural, media, and political alliances.
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Comprehensive and Sensitive Account of Gay Bombay, April 17 2008
By M. Kumari - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporar (Paperback)
This path-breaking study offers an exhaustive list of references and some very condensed academic perspectives, but balances these with personal recollections - 'memoryscapes' - and responses from interviewees. The first of its kind, this book explores the factors behind Gay Bombay, an online and offline social forum for 'gay' (and the term is problematised thoroughly in the opening section) people in the city. A very interesting read, both for the academic and the casual observer. I thought the best thing about this was the variety of perspectives presented, as well as some really moving personal accounts.
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