AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science

by Steven F. Kruger

Book Overview

This is the first book-length study of the rich fiction that has emerged from the AIDS crisis. Examining first the ways in which scientific discourse on AIDS has reflected ideologies of gender and sexuality-such as the construction of AIDS as a disease of gay men, part of a battle over masculinity, and thus largely excluding women with AIDS from public attention-the book considers how such discourses have shaped narrative understandings of AIDS. On...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138966401
• ISBN13: 9781138966406
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"