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Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum is a Sicilian-American feminist cultural historian and professor emerita.

Life

Birnbaum was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in 1964. She was a Clayman Institute scholar at Stanford University. She teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies and has also taught history at San Francisco State University.

Awards

• 1987 American Book Award

Works

• Dark Mother: African Origins and Godmothers. iUniverse. 2002. ISBN 978-0-595-20841-8.
• Black madonnas: feminism, religion, and politics in Italy. Northeastern University Press. 1993.
• Liberazione della donne: feminism in Italy. Wesleyan University Press. 1986.

Editor

• Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, ed. (2005). She Is Everywhere!: An Anthology of Writing in Womanist/feminist Spirituality. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-34034-7.

References

1. "Interview with Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum". academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
2. "Library to Host Event with Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum", San Diego Public Library
3. "Institute Scholars". Archived from the original on 2008-10-23. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
4. "Faculty - Women and Gender Studies". California Institute of Integral Studies. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
5. Birnbaum, Lucia Chiavola (1993). Black Madonnas: Feminism, Religion, and Politics in Italy. Northeastern University Press. p. xix. ISBN 978-1-55553-156-0.

External links

• "Dark Mother book website"
• "Madre Oscura Primo Capitoloing, Chapter 1"
• "EXCERPTS FROM OUR FIRST DISCUSSION WITH LUCIA BIRNBAUM"

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