Pies and essays: women writing through the British 1984–1985 coal miners' strike | Semantic Scholar
@article{Stephenson2013PiesAE,
title={Pies and essays: women writing through the British 1984–1985 coal miners' strike},
author={Carol Stephenson and Jean Spence},
journal={Gender, Place \& Culture},
year={2013},
volume={20},
pages={218 - 235},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145148859}
}During the 1984–1985 British miners' strike and in its immediate aftermath, women activists produced a series of publications involving creative writing, which sought to communicate the strike from their own perspective. The production and sale of publications were a practical activity in support of the strike and in defence of community. We argue that insofar as writing was also a means whereby the women who worked to make sense of themselves in an emergent situation for which there was no…