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AbstractThis review article provides a thematic synthesis and overview of 30 years of research into the study of men and masculinity in men's magazines. Over 100 articles, book chapters, and books were reviewed to explore how scholars have approached the study of masculinity in such magazines and identify four major areas of inquiry: the commodification of masculinity; the relationship between sexism and misogyny in men's magazines and men's attitudes towards women; the vulnerability of men to, and the role of magazines in the construction of, men's body image anxieties; and the increasing sexualisation of men's bodies. The strengths and potential limitations of these four thematic approaches are identified, including an insufficiently nuanced account of the ways in which men might actually engage with images and ideas about masculinity in such magazines; an overly singular view of male sexuality that naturalises sexist and predatory behaviour; and an overemphasis on men's bodies as sites of vulnerability, risk, or crisis at the expense of more substantive considerations of the relationship between the representation of body modification practices and technologies, and men's embodied identities. The review concludes with an overview of the present field and some suggestions for future research.

The conception of welfare services has changed to consider the more specialized needs of individual users or consumers. This book examines the contradictions and complexities of contemporary individualized welfare services, with special reference to service groups who are deeply dependent on service delivery for their quality of life

IntroductionTreatment as prevention has mobilized new opportunities in preventing HIV transmission and has led to bold new UNAIDS targets in testing, treatment coverage and transmission reduction. These will require not only an increase in investment but also a deeper understanding of the dynamics of combining behavioural, biomedical and structural HIV prevention interventions. High‐income countries are making substantial investments in combination HIV prevention, but is this investment leading to a deeper understanding of how to combine interventions? The combining of interventions involves complexity, with many strategies interacting with non‐linear and multiplying rather than additive effects.DiscussionDrawing on a recent scoping study of the published research evidence in HIV prevention in high‐income countries, this paper argues that there is a gap between the evidence currently available and the evidence needed to guide the achieving of these bold targets. The emphasis of HIV prevention intervention research continues to look at one intervention at a time in isolation from its interactions with other interventions, the community and the socio‐political context of their implementation. To understand and evaluate the role of a combination of interventions, we need to understand not only what works, but in what circumstances, what role the parts need to play in their relationship with each other, when the combination needs to adapt and identify emergent effects of any resulting synergies. There is little development of evidence‐based indicators on how interventions in combination should achieve that strategic advantage and synergy. This commentary discusses the implications of this ongoing situation for future research and the required investment in partnership. We suggest that systems science approaches, which are being increasingly applied in other areas of public health, could provide an expanded vocabulary and analytic tools for understanding these complex interactions, relationships and emergent effects.ConclusionsRelying on the current linear but disconnected approaches to intervention research and evidence we will miss the potential to achieve and understand system‐level synergies. Given the challenges in sustaining public health and HIV prevention investment, meeting the bold UNAIDS targets that have been set is likely to be dependent on achieving systems level synergies.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Framing the Sexual Subject -- Part One: Bodies, Cultures, and Identities -- Chapter One. Bodyplay -- Chapter Two. Masculinity in Indonesia -- Chapter Three. Male Homosexuality and Seropositivity -- Part Two: Sex, Gender, and Power -- Chapter Four. Sexual Rights -- Chapter Five. Cross-National Perspectives on Gender and Power -- Chapter Six. Gender Stereotypes and Power Relations -- Chapter Seven. AIDS, Medicine, and Moral Panic in the Philippines -- Chapter Eight. Survival Sex and HIV/AIDS in an African City -- Chapter Nine. Cultural Regulation, Self-Regulation, and Sexuality -- Chapter Ten. Gendered Scripts and the Sexual Scene -- Afterword The Production of Knowledge on Sexuality in the AIDS Era -- Contributors -- Index