| Parent company | Start Publishing |
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| Founded | 1980 |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Jersey City, New Jersey |
| Distribution | Books International and Simon & Schuster |
| Publication types | Books |
| Fiction genres | Erotica, romance, lgbt, collection & anthologies, fiction, nonfiction, sexual health, sexual education |
| Official website | www |
Cleis Press is an American independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights. The press was founded in 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It later moved to San Francisco and was based out of Berkeley until its purchase by Start Media in 2014.[1] It was founded by Frédérique Delacoste, Felice Newman and Mary Winfrey Trautmann[2] who collectively financed wrote and published the press's first book Fight Back: Feminist Resistance to Male Violence in 1981. In 1987, they published Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry by Delacoste with Priscilla Alexander.[3]
- ^ "Contact". Cleis Press. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
- ^ "Feminist Collections, v.3, no.2 (winter 1982)". Minds.wisconsin.edu. 1982. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
- ^ "Sex Work : Edited by Fr?d?rique Delacoste and Priscilla Alexander". Cleis Press. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
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