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This volume focuses on how Russian policy toward Europe (and sometimes, by extension, the West more broadly) has developed since the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It argues that important aspects of cooperation have endured in the relationship despite all the vicissitudes of Russian domestic politics and at a time of flux in the international relations of the European continent. This cooperation has, at times, been fragile and has not prevented some obvious and deep-seated disagreements. It has, however, survived. Indeed, Russia and Europe have increasingly 'routinized' their relationship in a range of formal multilateral institutions.

The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Britain and the United States were closely involved in this question, yet their respective roles have not received the detailed historical attention which they merit. Based on extensive research in British and American archives, this book will seek to analyse British and US policy on this question within its Cold War context.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Plates -- Introduction -- 1. Political Prints and Cartoon Satires -- 2. Literature and Literary Society -- 3. Natural and Necessary Enemies? Anglo-French Diplomacy -- 4. The British Expatriate Community in France 1748-1815 -- 5. Citizens of the World? English Peripatetics in France 1748-1815 -- 6. Francophilia and the Elite -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The book explores comparatively the role of non-profit organizations in conditions of social and economic change. The focus of the study is an investigation of the proposition that non-profit organizations provide sites and processes for enhancing active citizenship, invigorating the public sphere and extending political participation. The study explores the economic constraints on voluntary associations and argues that they can function as 'schools of democracy'. This book is the first national study of the third-sector in Australia, but its conclusions have a general relevance to deregulated welfare societies in Europe and North America.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Fags, female icons and Stonewall -- Fags, hags and queer sistership -- 1 From Pathology to Gender Dissent: Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire -- 1.1 Streetcar: Perversion or great American (queer) art? -- Inversion: Maurice and unrequited desire -- Coming out: Stonewall and gay politics -- A Streetcar Named Desire: a gay play? -- From gender to libido (and back again?) -- 1.2 Streetcar: a play with gender? -- Stanley Kowalski: Polack, stud, husband -- Miss DuBois: queer defiance? -- 2 Heterosocial Tendencies -- A case of sexuality or gender? Feminism and queer theory -- Homosocial regimes, male power and not getting fucked -- Pulp Fiction: fucking butch -- Homosocial dissent, female bonding -- Mapping heterosocial bonds -- Straight talking: get some Attitude -- Slash fantasies/heterosocial bonds -- 3 Roseanne: Domestic Goddess as Heterosocial Heroine? -- Roseanne and political credibility -- Roseanne and homosociality: the queer challenge -- 'I now pronounce you men': Queer marriage and the domestic goddess -- Mary-come-lately or gay goddess? -- 4 Pedro Almodóvar and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: the Heterosocial Spectator and Misogyny -- A Case of public or private? -- Liberal titillation and the regime of the couple -- Queer opportunities -- Women on the verge of queer sistership? -- The woman's film as gay film? -- Edward II: queer homosociality? -- Hysteria and heterosocial dissent -- Conclusion -- Fag Hag: a cautionary tale? -- Fags, hags and gender dissent -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.