Opening Up Space: A Lovely Technofeminist Opportunity

Education

Education has been an important theme for us as we have been creating this anthology. We want to acknowledge the privilege and power that comes with the access to education and it is important that we recognize this so that we can understand these authors and their texts. We also wanted to acknowledge the discrepancies of access to education in relation to topics such as social class, gender, social norms, race, and feminism. There are many different ways we can look at education as an important tag and theme for this anthology. This tag for education will serve to connect different author's access to education or lack of as well as themes of education present in the texts we are looking at. 

Throughout history women have not been given equal access to education compared to their male peers. The theme of education and the access to education is important to both the stories of the authors in our anthology as well as the stories they write. For example, as a class we have been able to discuss the theme of education through the historical figure Phillis Wheatley, who lived from 1753-1784 and was the first African American to publish a book in the United States. She is an example of a person who had the privilege of education but was also held down by the intersections of racism, patriarchal gender roles, and for part of her life, enslavement. In the case of Wheatley, we see both ways the theme of education relates. We can use the theme to understand the education she received and how that had an influence on her life and her work. However, we can also use this theme to look at the way "education" is present in her poems and how that influences their meanings. As discussed earlier, in this anthology, this theme of education will be based an authors access to education (like the case of Phillis Wheatley) or lack of access AND themes of education in which an author include in their text.


 Excerpt for Phillis found in An enquiry concerning the intellectual and moral faculties, and the literature of Negroes

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