Opening Up Space: A Lovely Technofeminist Opportunity

Self-determination

Self-determination is defined as the process of taking control of one's life.  Writing is an act of self-determination since through writing, women writers enact their identities and materialize their positionality into text. Many of these texts were written in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, where women writers (usually white) were becoming popular in mainstream literature.  Writing was an outlet for them to liberate their thoughts and ideas -- at least within the sociopolitical context of the era.

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