New Book: MSM and Social Work

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New Book: Social Work Practice and Men Who have Sex with Men.

By Sherry ph

http://www.indiasage.com/browse/book.asp?bookid=908 & Subject_Name= & mode=1#abt

About the Book: Society at large tends to marginalize homosexuality even though

men who have sex with men have always existed within it. This book is a

significant contribution in the endeavour to understand this segment of society

and its concerns.

Employing a blend of qualitative and quantitative methods, Sherry ph

analyses the extensive data collected through formal networks of such people in

Kolkata, and places them in a socio-ecological perspective. He shows how the

lives of men who have sex with men are very stressful in their efforts to fit

into an environment that is predominantly homophobic, heterosexist,

heterocentrist and where heterosexuality is the prescribed norm.

The book argues that understanding the stress that men who have sex with men

experience and their coping strategies will assist sympathetic groups and

professionals to work with this community.

Contact details of the author.

Sherry ph Ph.D

Program Manager (HIV/AIDS)

Futures Group

1 D-II, Park Wood Estate,

Rao Tula Ram Marg,

New Delhi 110 022

Ph: 011- 26712165/71/75

Fax: 011-26168931

E-mail: sjoseph@...