Books by Steven F. Kruger

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An examination of AIDS fiction revealing how AIDS discourses have shaped society's understanding of the disease. Kruger (Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes scientific texts, arguing that their language has made AIDS an exclusively gendered, gay disease. From this vantage point, he critic

Through incisive readings of a range of medieval texts and informed by poststructuralist, queer, and feminist theories, this book traces the Jewish presence in Western Europe to show how the body, gender, and sexuality were at the root of the construction of medieval religious anxieties, inconsistencies, and instabilities.