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Aunt Lute Books
Founded1982
FounderBarb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss
Headquarters locationSan Francisco, CA
DistributionSmall Press Distribution
Publication typesBooks
Fiction genresFeminist literature
Official websiteauntlute.com

Aunt Lute Books is an American multicultural feminist press based in San Francisco, California. The publisher also seeks to work with and support first-time authors.[1]

Publishing history

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In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.[2]

Aunt Lute merged with Spinsters Ink, another feminist publisher, 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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Titles

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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 have also 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]

Other titles are listed below:

Anthologies and collections

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Awards

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Aunt Lute Books won the 2004-2005 and the 2005-2006 Best of the Small Presses Award, granted by Standards, an international cultural studies magazine.[9]

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "About Aunt Lute". Archived from the original on 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  • ^ 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
  • ^ "STANDARDS: Best of the Small Presses 2004 - 2005". web.archive.org. 2008-10-13. Retrieved 2024-07-15.

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aunt_Lute_Books&oldid=1234682492"

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