Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum is a Sicilian American feminist cultural historian.

Life

She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D.^[1] She was a Clayman Institute scholar at Stanford University.^[2] She teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco.^[3]

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.

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. "Library to Host Event with Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum", San Diego Public Library
2. http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/People/PastScholars.html
3. http://www.ciis.edu/Academics/Graduate_Programs/Womens_Spirituality_PhD/Faculty.html

External links

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