ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers the organisation of the press discourse around various figures of metaphor and its textual effects. Sarah Hipperson, a Yellow Gate protester, has stated that the peace movement should have to take on ‘all that creates war: poverty, racism, sexism and exploitation of every kind’. An analysis of the combined amnesia and rediscovery points towards the deep paradox on which a discourse such as this is found (er)ed. In praxis, as in theory, there has been a lack of an ending. The Greenham women have mirrored the theoretical statements in their day-to-day negotiation of the expression of dissent. The cultural commonplace which (pre)constructed the representation of the Greenham women has almost uniformly been one of censure. Finally, the material and political context was revealed, in an account of the particular extra-discursive moment of the press coverage of the Greenham protest.
