In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.[2]
Aunt Lute merged with Spinsters Ink, another feminist publisher, 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.[citation needed]
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 also 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]
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 won the 2004-2005 and the 2005-2006 Best of the Small Presses Award, granted by Standards, an international cultural studies magazine.[9]
^ abHoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN1-884964-16-8, p134
^Press Release: Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted [1][usurped]
^Young, Stacey. Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement, Routledge, 1996, ISBN0-415-91376-4, p44
