Showing posts with label metaphor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metaphor. Show all posts

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.