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“Side by side with our men?” Women's activism, community and gender in the 1984-5 British Miners' strike

Spence, J.; Stephenson, C.

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J. Spence

C. Stephenson



Abstract

This paper explores the gendered concept of community with reference to the activism of women during the UK 1984–1985 miners’ strike. Drawing on texts from the period and reflective discussions twenty years later with women associated with the strike, it interrogates the ways in which the idea of community was used to accommodate the activism of women. We argue that the apparently gender-neutral ideal of mining community carried meanings that had ambiguous political implications for the women and that the strike highlighted paradoxes that question established understanding of female strike activism.

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Spence, J., & Stephenson, C. (2009). “Side by side with our men?” Women's activism, community and gender in the 1984-5 British Miners' strike. International Labor and Working-Class History, 75(1), 68-84. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0147547909000064

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Mar 1, 2009
Deposit Date Feb 10, 2010
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal International Labor and Working-Class History
Print ISSN 0147-5479
Electronic ISSN 1471-6445
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 75
Issue 1
Pages 68-84
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s0147547909000064

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