Table of Contents

        2.1 Introduction
        2.2 Coal-mining and the pit-village
        2.2.1. Mining - male or female?
        2.2.2 The pit-village
        2.2.2.1 Physical Isolation
        2.2.2.2 Economic predominance of mining
        2.2.2.3 The nature of work
        2.2.2.4 The leisure activities
        2.2.2.5 The family
        2.2.3 Conclusions
        2.3 Women's roles in mining-communities before 1984/85
        2.3.1 Introduction
        2.3.2 Excluding women
        2.3.3 Jobs for women
        2.3.4 Women and leisure
        2.3.5 The union and the women
        2.3.6 Masculinity and muscularity
        2.3.7 Family
        2.3.8 Identity
        2.3.9 And today...

        3.1 Introduction
        3.2 The Miners' Lock-Out of 1926
        3.3 Women's fight for pit-head baths

        4.1 Introduction
        4.2 The background to the Miners' Strike 1984/85
        4.2.1 The run-down of the industry 1947-1984
        4.2.2 The state prepares
        4.2.3 A short chronology of the strike
        4.2.4 What was the Miners' Strike about?
        4.2.4.1 Jobs
        4.2.4.2 The community
        4.3 Women's activities in the Miners' Strike 1985/85
        4.3.1 The origins of women's participation
        4.3.2 Women's activities and what they meant for them
        4.3.2.1 The soup kitchens
        4.3.2.2 Picketing
        4.3.2.3 Fund-raising and public speaking
        4.3.2.4 Strength from Greenham
        4.3.2.5 Writing
        4.3.2.6 Other activities
        4.3.2.7 Concluding remarks
        4.3.3 A re-run of the past ?
        4.4 Women's roles during and after the Miners' Strike 1984/85
        4.4.1 What the men thought...
        4.4.2 Women's words and women's roles
        4.4.2.1 Topics. or What they had to say
        4.4.3 Was it all over - when it was over ?
        4.4.4 The future - Back into oblivion ?

        6.1 Diary of Mrs. Patricia Heron
        6.2 Letter from Mrs McG. to W.S.Howard
        6.3 Final chapter of 'For the Children'
        6.4 Poems
        6.5 Títlepage of 'Coalfield Woman'
        6.6 Map of the North East coalfield
        6.7 Translations