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Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

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

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]

• 1987 American Book Award

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]

External links[edit]

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

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