Spinster's ink books

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Founded in Upstate New York in 1978 by Maureen Brady and Judith McDaniel, Spinster's Ink Books is one of the oldest Lesbian Feminist publishers in the world.

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The history of Spinsters Ink Books is closely tied up with that of another feminist publisher, Aunt Lute Books.[1]

Spinsters Ink was founded by authors Maureen Brady and Judith McDaniel. It then moved to San Francisco in 1982 when it was purchased by Sherry Thomas.[2]

Spinsters Ink merged in San Francisco with Aunt Lute Book Company in 1986, to form Spinsters/Aunt Lute. The Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non profit publishing program in 1990, and the two companies separated again. In 1992 Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis.[3][4]

In 2001 Spinster's Ink moved to Denver, Colorado under Sharon Silvas, who brought back into print the classic Feminist Utopian novel, The Wanderground by Sally Miller Gearhart[5]. The company currently publishes out of Midway, Florida, and employs Katherine V. Forrest as editorial supervisor]][6].

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Spinster's Ink has published many well known feminist authors, including Sheila Ortiz-Taylor, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Paula Gunn Allen, Elana Dykewomon, Judy Grahn, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga. It has released two Lambda Award winning books, Why can't Sharon Kowalski come Home?, and Cancer in Two Voices, as well as the bestselling Look me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism.[7]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Press Release: Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted [1]
  2. ^ Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134
  3. ^ Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134
  4. ^ Young, Stacey. Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement, Routledge, 1996, ISBN:0415913764, p44
  5. ^ Spinsters Ink
  6. ^ Spinsters Ink
  7. ^ Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134

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