2.12.09

out of place

"The Greenham women were metaphorically described as dirt because they were women on their own outside a heavily masculinized air force base...The use of dirt metaphors to describe Greenham women is evidence for a way of understanding these women as out of place"
Cresswell, T. (1997) Weeds, Plagues & Bodily Secretions. A Geographical Interpretation of Metaphors of Displacement. 

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