Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985
Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985
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妇女和矿工罢工，1984 年至 1985 年
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10.1093/oso/9780192843098.001.0001
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2023
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Sutcliffe-Braithwaite F
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Sutcliffe-Braithwaite F
1984年至1985年的矿工罢工刚刚开始几天，英国各地煤田社区的一些妇女就开始开会，考虑如何支持罢工，这是一场与撒切尔政府就煤炭行业未来的冲突。妇女最终形成了一个全国性的团体网络，一些观察家认为这是一个“替代福利国家”，帮助罢工持续了不到一年。这本书是对这场全国性运动的第一次研究，阐明了它的成就，但也讲述了全国矿工工会中与男性的争论和分歧以及妇女解放运动中的女权主义者的鲜为人知的故事。运动中的许多妇女，尽管她们是激进分子，但坚决否认自己是“政治”的，将自己定义为“普通”妇女、家庭主妇、母亲和工人;尽管有人声称妇女活动家的经历永远改变了她们，但大多数参与者认为她们只是以更微妙的方式改变了自己。妇女和矿工罢工也是第一个超越活动家，研究大多数妇女在采矿家庭谁没有参与活动的经验。其中一些妇女支持罢工，她们自己出去工作以维持家庭;另一些妇女则在家中提供实际和情感上的支持。许多人对这场争端的态度是矛盾的，尽管那些丈夫或父亲在罢工期间工作或提前返回工作岗位的妇女的经历在公众的记忆中几乎完全被掩盖了。因此，这本书也展示了一些被丈夫打破罢工的妇女如何重塑民主和社区等概念，以证明她们的行为是正当的，有些人甚至成立了自己的支持团体，以帮助社区中因反对罢工而受到攻击的其他妇女。通过研究100多名妇女的故事和她们在罢工期间的不同经历，这本书揭示了工人阶级妇女与“政治”和“普通”的关系，并展示了战后英国性别角色，工人阶级生活方式和煤田社区的变化方式。
Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately formed a national network of groups that some observers saw as an'alternative welfare state', helping to keep the strike going for just under a year. This book is the first study of this national movement, illuminating its achievements, but also telling the less well-known story of arguments and divisions with men in the National Union of Mineworkers and feminists in the women's liberation movement. Many women in the movement, despite their activism, resolutely denied that they were'political'at all, defining themselves as' ordinary'women, housewives, mothers, and workers; and, despite some claims that women activists had been transformed for ever by their experiences, most of those involved felt they had been changed only in more subtle ways. Women and the Miners' Strike is also the first to look beyond the activists to study the experiences of the majority of women in mining families who did not get involved in activism. Some of these women supported the strike by going out to work themselves to keep their families going; others supported their menfolk with practical and emotional support in the home. A large number were ambivalent about the dispute, even though the experiences of women whose husbands or fathers worked through the strike, or returned to work early, have generally been almost entirely obscured within popular memory. This book therefore also demonstrates how some women whose husbands broke the strike refashioned concepts like democracy and community to justify their actions, and how some even formed their own support groups to aid other women in their communities who found themselves under fire for opposing the strike. Through examining the stories of more than 100 women and their varied experiences during the strike, the book sheds new light on working-class women's relationship to the'political'and the'ordinary', and demonstrates the ways in which gender roles, working-class lifestyles, and coalfield communities changed in Britain over the post-war period.