Following on a tradition of open-ended women's writing that includes experimental writers like Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Christine Brooke-Rose, Nicole Brossard and Kathy Acker, contemporary feminist hypertextualists are implicitly weaving the language of feminist theory and social critique into their oppositional, textual worlds.

On the issue of language, Monique Wittig observes:

...the entire world is only a great register where the most diverse languages come to have themselves recorded, such as the language of the Unconscious, the language of fashion, the language of the exchange of women where human beings are literally the signs which are used to communicate. These languages, or rather these discourses, fit into one another, interpenetrate one another, support one another, reinforce one another, auto-engender, and engender one another. Linguistics engenders semiology and structural linguistics, structural linguistics engenders structuralism, which engenders the Structural Unconscious. The ensemble of these discourses produces a confusing static for the oppressed, which makes them lose sight of the material cause of their oppression and plunges them into a kind of ahistoric vacuum (Wittig 22).