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Introduction / Barry D. Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Andr(c)♭ Krouwel -- Moral regulation and the disintegrating Canadian state / Barry D. Adam -- Gay and lesbian movements in the United States: dilemmas of identity, diversity and political strategy / Steven Epstein -- "More love and more desire": the building of a Brazilian movement / James N. Green -- Democracy and sexual difference: the lesbian and gay movement in Argentina / Stephen Brown -- The lesbian and gay movement in Britain: schisms, solidarities, and social worlds / Ken Plummer -- The Dutch lesbian and gay movement: the politics of accommodation / Judith Schuyf and Andr(c)♭ Krouwel -- Gay and lesbian activism in France: between integration and community-oriented movements / Olivier Fillieule and Jan Willem Duyvendak -- Passion for life: a history of the lesbian and gay movement in Spain / Ricardo Llamas and Fefa Vila -- Gay and lesbian movements in Eastern Europe: Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic / Scott Long -- Emerging visibility of gays and lesbians in Southern Africa: contrasting contexts / Mai Palmberg -- Japan: finding its way? / Wim Lunsing -- The largest street party in the world: the gay and lesbian movement in Australia / Geoffrey Woolcock and Dennis Altman -- Gay and lesbian movements beyond borders? National imprints of a worldwide movement / Barry D. Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Andr(c)♭ Krouwel

This timely book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses whilst asking: What is lesbian and gay studies? When did it emerge? And what are its achievements and research agenda? The gay and lesbian movement has emerged as a major political and cultural force. It poses a series of far reaching questions about the organization of identity, the operation of power and the limits of tolerance. Lesbian and Gay Studies has emerged as a vital and enriching field. It offers challenges to more traditional disciplines and requires new forms of thought about the connections between acad.

In "Making Democracy Work", Robert Putnam describes the evolution of northern and Southern Italy in terms of 'virtuous' and 'vicious circles'. The literature on social capital is mainly concerned with one part of these self-reinforcing processes, more particularly the relation between social capita! and the performance of specific institutions. The other part of the process -how institutions and policies in their turn advance or hamper norms and networks of civic engagement- is very rarely studied. In this article we discuss the possible consequences of the differences in Flemish and Dutch urban policies on the conditions conducive to the production of social capital.