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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-4-2016
Publication Title
Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Volume
13
First Page
321
Keywords
neoliberalism, masculinity, HIV risk
Last Page
329
Abstract
Health science research on HIV risk focuses strongly on psychological traits of individuals as determinants of health and vulnerability. This paper seeks to place these findings in a larger social context marked by neoliberalism to provide some insights into the arenas of vulnerability to risk. These arenas are shaped by shifts in the environing political economy which generate subjectivities concordant with the pressures of the neoliberal turn to increasing marketization, individualization, and responsibilization. These pressures create cultures of expectation that accentuate particular trends defining success, masculinity, and risk in contemporary societies. In other words, the ‘risk factors,’ identified in the now voluminous research literature on HIV, cumulate in particular social locations that, at least in part, articulate with masculine gender performance in marketplaces. These intersections affect the expression of sex between men and vulnerabilities to risk, providing an alternative understanding to the deficit models current in health science research.
DOI
10.1007/s13178-016-0232-2
Recommended Citation
Barry D Adam. 2016. “Neoliberalism, masculinity, and HIV risk” Sexuality Research and Social Policy 13 (4):321-329
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