Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

Overview

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

Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum's signature (Women's library of Bologna) from the book: "Dark mothers, african Origins and Godmothers"

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

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

Life

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

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

References

  1. "Interview with Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum". academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  2. "Library to Host Event with Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum", San Diego Public Library
  3. "Institute Scholars". Archived from the original on 23 October 2008. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
  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.