African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises [Hardcover]

Linda K. Fuller (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (October 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1403984050
• ISBN-13: 978-1403984050
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,343,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Linda K. Fuller, Ph.D.
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Linda K. Fuller, Professor Emerita in the Communications Department of Worcester State College and a Senior Fellow at Northeastern University since 2003, earned a B.A. in American Studies from Skidmore College, an M.A. in Human Technology from American International College, and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Massachusetts. A Fulbright Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 1996 and a Fulbright Senior Researcher on HIV/AIDS in Dakar, Senegal, in 2002, she was invited to lead a workshop on ethnicity at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa. Linda and her husband, Eric, have three sons, two daughters-in-law, three granddaughters, a black lab, and a Siamese cat. Responsible for 250+ professional publications and conference reports, she is the author/ (co-)editor of the following:
* Beyond the Stars: Studies in American Popular Film (1990 - 1996); a five-volume series
* Communicating Comfortably: Your Guide to Overcoming Speaking and Writing Anxieties (1990)
* The Cosby Show: Audiences, Impact, Implications (1992)
* Community Television in the United States: A Sourcebook on Public, Educational, and Governmental Access (1994)
* Chocolate Fads, Folklore, and Fantasies (1994)
* Communicating About Communicable Diseases (1995)
* Media-Mediated Relationships: Straight and Gay, Mainstream and Alternative Perspectives (1996)
* Dictionary of Quotations in Communications (1997)
* Women and AIDS: Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation (1998)
* Media-Mediated AIDS (2002)
* National Days/National Ways: Historical, Political, and Religious Celebrations Around the World (2004)
* Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations (2006)
* Community Media: International Perspectives (2007)
* African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises (2008)
* Sportscasters/Sportscasting: Practices and Principles (2008)
* Exercises in Sportscasting (2008)
* Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Historical and Media Contexts of Violence (2009)
* Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts (2009)
* Tsunami Communication: (Inter)personal/intercultural, Media, Technical, Ethical, Philanthropic, Development, and Personal Responses (2010)
* Women, War, and Violence: Personal Perspectives and Global Activism (2010)

Check out her sports website: http://www.LKFullerSport.com.