My research moves on from aesthetics and on to how language is used in these women's work. First item I focused on was the masculinity of language and how these women employ masculine characteristics of language. That also creates a juxtaposition between the use of something masculine in order to gain a feminine voice. This is an interesting dynamic that creates a new meaning.
Important work for me in researching is by Robin Lakoff called Language and Woman's Place. I quote this passage as important:
“Little girls are indeed taught to talk like little ladies, in that their speech is in many ways more polite than that of boys or men, and the reason for this is that politeness involves an absence of a strong statement, and women's speech is devised to prevent the expression of strong statements.” (Lakoff, 1973).
Connecting this with the role of the use of appropriation, this kind of text expression makes sense. Quoting Liz Linden Reframing Pictures: Reading the Art of Appropriation:
“This broader application of appropriation necessarily allows for a greater diversity of hegemonies to be addressed and political positions to be voiced, because the practice can explore what is at stake in more types of representations. Artists still use appropriation “to expose that system of power that authorizes certain representations while blocking, prohibiting, or invalidating others,” but we increasingly engage a diversity of representations (textual or otherwise) in the service of a diversity of political positions concerned with manifestations of control” (Landen, 1996).