Drawing on recent fieldwork in West Bengal, India the chapter explored ambivalent responses to discourses of sexual subjectivity among men who have sex with men working in community-based HIV prevention. With mixed responses to socio-economic development in the region research participants often refuted individuated sexual identities, even as they were caught up with promoting such discourses in their HIV prevention work. Such attitudes reflected wider social changes in West Bengal, revealing wa
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Between subjectivity and practice - understanding male-to-male sexuality in West Bengal
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ESRC
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Bibliographic Information
Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: Understanding Global Sexualities: New Frontiers (2012)
ISBN: 9780415673471