Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

Summary

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

Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
Born
AwardsAmerican Book Awards
1987 Liberazione della Dona: Feminism in Italy
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Academic work
Disciplinehistorian
Sub-discipline
  • cultural history
  • feminism
Institutions

Life edit

Birnbaum was born in Kansas City, Missouri.[1] She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in 1964.[2] She was a Clayman Institute scholar at Stanford University.[3] She teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies[4] and has also taught history at San Francisco State University.[5]

Awards edit

Works edit

  • 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 edit

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

References edit

  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 edit

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