TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joseph,Sherry
TI  - Social work practice and men who have sex with men
SN  - 9788132103516
AV  - HQ76.2.I4 J67 2005eb
U1  - 306.76/62/0954 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Gay men
KW  - India
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Social work with gays
KW  - Homophobia
KW  - Homosexuels masculins
KW  - Inde
KW  - Homosexualité
KW  - Service social aux homosexuels
KW  - Homophobie
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Gay Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-299) and index; Introduction -- Scholarship on homosexuality -- Homosexuality in India : historical overview and contemporary situation -- Social and sexual profiles of men who have sex with men -- Sexual identities of men who have sex with men -- Stresses and coping strategies of men who have sex with men -- Social work practice with men who have sex with men -- Conclusion; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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 Joseph 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, hete
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