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Men at Risk - Masculinity, Heterosexuality and HIV Prevention (Hardcover)
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Men at Risk - Masculinity, Heterosexuality and HIV Prevention (Hardcover)
Series: Biopolitics
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Presents a unique approach to HIV prevention at the intersection of
sociological and public health research Although the first AIDS
cases were attributed to men having sex with men, over 70% of HIV
infections worldwide are now estimated to occur through sex between
women and men. In Men at Risk, Shari L. Dworkin argues that the
centrality of heterosexual relationship dynamics to the
transmission of HIV means that both women and men need to be taken
into account in gender-specific HIV/AIDS prevention interventions.
She looks at the "costs of masculinity" that shape men's HIV risks,
such as their initiation of sex and their increased status from sex
with multiple partners. Engaging with the common paradigm in HIV
research that portrays only women-and not heterosexually active
men-as being "vulnerable" to HIV, Dworkin examines the gaps in
public health knowledge that result in substandard treatment for
HIV transmission and infection among heterosexual men both
domestically and globally. She examines a vast array of structural
factors that shape men's HIV transmission risks and also focuses on
a relatively new category of global health programs with men known
as "gender-transformative" that seeks to move men in the direction
of gender equality in the name of improved health. Dworkin makes
suggestions for the next generation of gender-transformative health
interventions by calling for masculinities-based and structurally
driven HIV prevention programming. Thoroughly researched and
theoretically grounded, Men at Risk presents a unique approach to
HIV prevention at the intersection of sociological and public
health research.
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