Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum is a Sicilian-American feminist

cultural historian Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

and professor emerita.

Life

Birnbaum was born in

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. She graduated from

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with a Ph.D. in 1964. She was a Clayman Institute scholar at

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. She teaches at the

California Institute of Integral Studies California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is a private university in San Francisco, California.Otterman, Sharon. "Merging Spirituality and Clinical Psychology at Columbia". ''New York Times'', Aug. 9, 2012Aanstoos, C. Serlin, I., & Greenin ...

and has also taught history at

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Awards

* 1987

American Book Award The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "the ...

Works

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

Editor

References

External links

"''Dark Mother'' book website""EXCERPTS FROM OUR FIRST DISCUSSION WITH LUCIA BIRNBAUM"
California Institute of Integral Studies faculty American feminists American people of Italian descent Living people American Book Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-historian-stub