AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science

by Steven F. Kruger

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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"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Medical Medical Books Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences

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