Aunt Lute Books

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Aunt Lute Books
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Founded1982
Founder and
Headquarters locationSan Francisco, CA
DistributionSmall Press Distribution
Publication typesBooks
Official websiteauntlute.com

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[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "About Aunt Lute". Archived from the original on 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Press Release: Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted [1]
  4. ^ Young, Stacey. Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-91376-4, p44
  5. ^ "Aunt Lute Catalog - All Titles". Archived from the original on 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  6. ^ "Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  7. ^ "Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  8. ^ UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, The California Feminist Presses Collection, 2004
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