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

• 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.