Aunt Lute Books
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Founded | 1982 |
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Founder | and |
Headquarters location | San Francisco, CA |
Distribution | Small Press Distribution |
Publication types | Books |
Official website | auntlute |
Aunt Lute Books is a multicultural feminist press whose mission is to "publish literature by women whose voices have been traditionally under-represented in mainstream and small press publishing" and "distribute literature that expresses the true complexity of women’s lives and the possibilities for personal and social change."[1] The publisher has a stated aim to embrace the opportunity to work with and support first-time authors.[1]
Publishing history[]
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.[2]
Aunt Lute merged with another feminist publisher, Spinsters Ink in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute.[3] In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non profit publishing program, and in 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis.[2][4]
Aunt Lute continues to operate independently as a nonprofit to the present day.
Titles[]
Aunt Lute has published a number of high-profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals), Gloria Anzaldúa (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza), Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, LeAnne Howe (Shell Shaker, winner of the 2002 Before Columbus American Book Award and Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story), Alice Walker, and Paula Gunn Allen.
Call Me Woman, the autobiography of South African activist Ellen Kuzwayo, Radmila Manojlovic Zarkovic's anthology, I Remember: Writings by Bosnian Women Refugees, and Cherry Muhanji's Lambda Award winning novel Her are all been published by Aunt Lute.[5] Other Aunt Lute titles include the first U.S. collection of Filipina/Filipina American women writers[6] and the first collection of Southeast Asian women writers,[7] as well as a number of translated texts.[8]
- A Simple Revolution; by Judy Grahn
- Alice Walker Banned; by Alice Walker
- Beautiful and Dark; by Rosa Montero and
- Borderlands/La Frontera (Fourth Edition); by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Call me Woman; by Ellen Kuzwayo
- Cancer Journals; by Audre Lorde
- flesh to bone; by ire'ne lara silva
- Gulf Dreams; by
- Haggadah; by Martha Shelley
- Hot Chicken Wings; by
- Her; by Cherry Muhanji
- The Issue is Power; by
- My Jewish Face; by
- Junglee Girl; by
- Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing; by
- Maidenhome; by
- Me as her again;
- Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story; by LeAnne Howe
- The Storyteller with Nike Airs; by
- Shell Shaker; by LeAnne Howe
- Send My Roots Rain; by Ibis Gomez-Vega
- Singing Softly/Cantando Bajito; by
- Teaching at the Crossroads; by
- Transforming Feminist Practice: Non-Violence, Social Justice, and the Possibilities of a Spiritualized Feminism; by
- The Two Mujeres; by
- Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Violence, and Secrets in a Suburban School; by
- The Way We Make Sense; by
- White Snake and Other Stories; by Geling Yan
- The Woman Who Owned the Shadows; by Paula Gunn Allen
Anthologies and collections[]
- Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers" Eds. and Eileen Tabios
- City of One: Young Writers Speak to the World; by WritersCorps
- El Mundo Zurdo; Eds. , , Norma Alarcón and
- El Mundo Zurdo 2;
- El Mundo Zurdo 3;
- Frontline Feminism; Ed.
- Good Girls Marry Doctors. Ed. Piyali Bhattacharya
- Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, (2016), Eds. ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera with an introduction by United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
- Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras; Ed. Gloria Anzaldúa
- New Voices 1; by , , and
- Our Feet Walk the Sky; by
- Positive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDS; Eds. and
- Radical Acts: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change; Eds. and
- Shadow on a Tightrope; Eds. and
- Solid Ground; by WritersCorps
- The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: 17th through 19th Centuries; Eds. and
- The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two; Eds. and
- The Judy Grahn Reader; By Judy Grahn
- The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993); Ed.
- Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers; Eds. Carolyn Dunn and
- Reclaiming Medusa: Short Stories by Contemporary Puerto Rican Women; Ed.
Awards[]
Aunt Lute Books was the 2004 - 2005 and the 2005 - 2006 Best of the Small Presses Award granted by Standards, an International Cultural Studies Magazine.
External links[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "About Aunt Lute". Archived from the original on 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN 1-884964-16-8, p134
- ^ Press Release: Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted [1]
- ^ Young, Stacey. Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-91376-4, p44
- ^ "Aunt Lute Catalog - All Titles". Archived from the original on 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ^ "Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ^ "Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ^ UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, The California Feminist Presses Collection, 2004
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