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Aunt Lute Books is a multicultural feminist press with a mandate to publish and distribute "culturally diverse writing expressing the complexity of lesbian and women's lives."[1] The publisher has a stated aim to embrace the opportunity to work with and support first-time authors.[2]
Publishing history
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5][6]
Aunt Lute continues to operate on its own to the present day.
Titles
Aunt Lute has published a number of high profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, LeAnne Howe, 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 all been published by Aunt Lute.[7]
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.
See also
External links
References
- ^ Aunt Lute Mission Statement
- ^ Aunt Lute Mission
- ^ Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134
- ^ Press Release: Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted [1]
- ^ Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134
- ^ Young, Stacey. Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement, Routledge, 1996, ISBN:0415913764, p44
- ^ Aunt Lute Catalogue
