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

Life Birnbaum was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in 1964."Library to Host Event with Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum", San Diego Public Library She was a Clayman Institute scholar at Stanford University. She teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies and has also taught history at San Francisco State University.

Awards 1987 American Book Award

Works

Liberazione della donne: feminism in Italy. Wesleyan University Press. 1986.

Editor

References

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