Aunt Lute Books
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| Founded | 1982 |
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| Founder | Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss |
| Headquarters location | San Francisco, CA |
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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 Trans Adrienne Mitchell
- 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 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; 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
- 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; Eds. Norma E. Cantu, Christina L. Gutierrez, Norma Alarcon and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
- El Mundo Zurdo 2;
- El Mundo Zurdo 3;
- Frontline Feminism; Ed. Karen Kahn
- 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
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 2 About Aunt Lute
- 1 2 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers
- ↑ Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora
- ↑ UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, The California Feminist Presses Collection, 2004