Background
Birnbaum, Lucia Chiavola was born on January 3, 1924 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Salvatore and Kate (Cipolla) Chiavola.
(In the 1993 edition, I considered black madonnas a metaph...)
In the 1993 edition, I considered black madonnas a metaphor for a memory of the time when the earth was belived to be the body of woman and all creatures were equal, a memory transmitted in vernacular traditions of earth-bounded cultures, historically expressed in cultural and poltical resistance, and glimpsed today in movements aiming for transformation. Sine then my understanding of black madonnas has been deepened by genetics finding that the orgin of modern humans is Africa, that migrations from Africa carried a primordial belief in a dar woman divinity to all continents. Black madonnas and other dark women of the world suggest a metaphor for healing millennial divisions of gender and race and concerted movements for justice.
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(Bringing a feminist perspective to contemporary findings ...)
Bringing a feminist perspective to contemporary findings of geneticists and archeologists, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, cultural historian, points out that the oldest veneration we know is of a dark mother of central and south Africa, whose signs-ochre red and the pubic V-were taken by african migrants after 50,000 BCE to caves and cliffs of all continents. The oldest sanctuary in the world was created in 40,000 BCE by african migrants in Har Karkom, later called Mt. Sinai, foundation place of judaism, christianity, and islam.Lucia documents the continuing memory of the dark mother and her values in prehistoric images of the dark mother, in historic black madonnas and in other dark women divinities whose sanctuaries are on african paths. She tracks the memory in rituals and stories of her sicilian grandmothers, in persecution of dark others in patriarchal Europe and the United States, in the rise of nonviolent dark others since the 1960s,in the banners of the 1995 world conference of women at Beijing, and in art. She finds the dark mother's values-justice with compassion, equality, and transformation-in everyday and celebratory rituals of the world's subaltern cultures-and suggests that the image and values are in the submerged memories of everyone.
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Birnbaum, Lucia Chiavola was born on January 3, 1924 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Salvatore and Kate (Cipolla) Chiavola.
Bachelor of Arts California, Berkeley, 1948. Master of Arts, University California, Berkeley, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1964.
Lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1963-1964, research associate, 1982-1983, 86, 90-96. Assistant professor history San Francisco State University, 1964-1969. Member faculty Feminist Institute, Berkeley, since 1981.
Professor doctoral program feminist spirituality California Institute Integral Studies, San Francisco, 1994—2000, professor, since 2001. Guest lecturer University Sydney, Australia, 1989, University Melbourne, Australia, 1989, University di Padua, 1990. Adjunct professor California College Arts and Crafts, Oakland, 1991-1992.
(In the 1993 edition, I considered black madonnas a metaph...)
(Bringing a feminist perspective to contemporary findings ...)
(Book by Birnbaum, Lucia Chiavola)
Member of faculty Feminist Institute, Berkeley, since 1981. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, Organisation American Historians, American Italian History Association (president Western Regional Chapter 1978-1982), National Women"s Studies Association, Center for Women and Religion of Graduate Theological Union, Women"s Partyfor Survival.
Married Wallace Birnbaum, February 3, 1946. Children: Naury, Marc, Stefan.