Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
American feminist cultural historian
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Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum is a Sicilian-American feminist cultural historian and professor emerita.
AwardsAmerican Book Awards
1987 Liberazione della Dona: Feminism in Italy
1987 Liberazione della Dona: Feminism in Italy
Disciplinehistorian
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum | |
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| Awards | American Book Awards 1987 Liberazione della Dona: Feminism in Italy |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Discipline | historian |
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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
- 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.
