Aunt Lute Books
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| Founded | 1982 |
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| Founder | Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss |
| Headquarters location | San Francisco, CA |
| Distribution | Small Press Distribution |
| Publication types | Books |
| Fiction genres | Feminist literature |
| Official website | auntlute |
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
[edit]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
[edit]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:
- A Simple Revolution by Judy Grahn
- Alice Walker Banned by Alice Walker
- Beautiful and Dark by Rosa Montero and Trans Adrienne Mitchell
- Borderlands/La Frontera (Fourth Edition) by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Call Me Woman by Ellen Kuzwayo
- The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
- flesh to bone by ire'ne lara silva
- Gulf Dreams; by Emma Perez
- Haggadah by Martha Shelley
- Hot Chicken Wings by Jyl Lynn Felman
- Her by Cherry Muhanji
- The Issue is Power by Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
- My Jewish Face by Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
- Junglee Girl by Ginu Kamani
- Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing by Lara Stapleton
- Maidenhome by Ding Xiaoqi
- Me As Her Again by Nancy Agabian
- Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story by LeAnne Howe
- The Storyteller, with Nike Airs by Kleya Forte-Escamilla
- Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe
- Send My Roots Rain by Ibis Gomez-Vega
- Singing Softly/Cantando Bajito by Carmen de Monteflores
- Teaching at the Crossroads by Laurie Grobman
- Transforming Feminist Practice: Non-Violence, Social Justice, and the Possibilities of a Spiritualized Feminism by Leela Fernandes
- The Two Mujeres by Sara Levi Calderon
- Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Violence, and Secrets in a Suburban School by Jo Scott-Coe
- The Way We Make Sense by Dawn Karima Pettigrew
- White Snake and Other Stories by Geling Yan
- The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen
Anthologies and collections
[edit]- Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers, eds. Nick Carbo and Eileen Tabios
- City of One: Young Writers Speak to the World by WritersCorps
- El Mundo Zurdo; El Mundo Zurdo, 2; El Mundo Zurdo, 3, eds. Norma E. Cantu, Christina L. Gutierrez, Norma Alarcón and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
- Frontline Feminism, ed. Karen Kahn
- Good Girls Marry Doctors, ed. Piyali Bhattacharya
- Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, 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 DeeAnne Davis, Rabie Harris, and Gloria Yamato
- Our Feet Walk the Sky by Women of South Asian Descent Collective (WOSAD)
- Positive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDS, eds. Imani Harrington and Chyrell Bellamy
- Radical Acts: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change, eds. Anne Elizabeth Armstrong and Kathleen Juhl
- Shadow on a Tightrope, eds. Lisa Schoenfielder and Barb Wieser
- Solid Ground, by WritersCorps
- The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: 17th through 19th Centuries, eds. Lisa Maria Hogeland and Mary Klages
- The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two, eds. Lisa Maria Hogeland and Shay Brown
- The Judy Grahn Reader by Judy Grahn
- The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993), ed. Asha Kanwar
- Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers, eds. Carolyn Dunn and Carol Comfort
- Reclaiming Medusa: Short Stories by Contemporary Puerto Rican Women, ed. Diana Velez
Awards
[edit]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]
External links
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- Book publishing companies based in San Francisco
- Feminism in California
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- Feminist organizations in the United States
- Mission District, San Francisco
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- Women in Iowa
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