Aunt Lute Books

Aunt Lute Books

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." [ [http://www.auntlute.com/about.htm Aunt Lute Mission Statement] ] The publisher has a stated aim to embrace the opportunity to work with and support first-time authors. [ [http://www.auntlute.com/about.htm Aunt Lute Mission] ]

Publishing history

In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa. [Hoshino, Edith S. "Feminist Publishing", in "International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia" editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134]

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. [Press Release: "Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On", March 1, 2005 quoted [http://www.spinsters-ink.com/ ] ] 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. [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 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. [ [http://www.auntlute.com/catalog.htm Aunt Lute Catalogue] ]

Awards

Aunt Lute Books was the 2004 - 2005 and the 2005 - 2006 Best of the Small Presses Award granted by [http://www.dustjacketpress.com/STANDARDS/V8N1/REVIEWS/best-of.html Standards] , an International Cultural Studies Magazine.

ee also

Spinsters Ink

External links

[http://www.auntlute.com/index.htm Aunt Lute Books]

References


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