A feminist theorization of hypertext should foreground collaborative action; it should emphasize working with others and working with technology, as opposed to trying to gain power over a body of knowledge or over a text. The rhetoric of personal empowerment comes down to a struggle for what Starhawk (a.k.a. Miriam Simos) has termed power-over, which comes from a consciousness of “estrangement: the view of the world as made up of atomized, nonliving parts, mechanically interacting, valued not for what they inherently are but only in relation to some outside standard” (9). Like classical, agonistic rhetoric, power-over “is ultimately born of war and the structures, social and intrapsychic, necessary to sustain mass, organized warfare” (9). The opposite of power-over is power-with, which is defined as influence, or “the power of a strong individual in a group of equals, the power not to command, but to suggest and be listened to, to begin something and see it happen” (10). The problem, in terms of my critique of the rhetoric of empowerment, is that in “the dominant culture, power-with has become confused with power-over” (10).