Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity : Volume 2: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education

## List of Figures viii Acknowledgements ix ## Notes on the Contributors x List of Tables 9. l Percentage of votes for the main parties in Sesto San Giovanni and among sample of respondents 9.2 Frequency of political discussions (Sesto San Giovanni) (percentages) 9.3 Frequency of political discussions now compared with five/ ten years ago (Sesto San Giovanni) (percentages) 9.4 How different associations/environments are valued today compared with five/ten years ago (Sesto San Giovanni) (percentages) 9.5 What is most important in life? (Sesto San Giovanni) (percentages) 9.6 Percentage of votes to the main parties in Erba and among respondents 9.7 How much do you agree with the following policies/objectives? (Erba) (percentages) 9.8 Frequency of political discussions (Erba) (percentages) 9.9 Frequency of political discussions now compared with five/ten years ago (Erba) (percentages) 9.10 How different associations are valued today compared with five/ten years ago (Erba) (percentages) 9.11 What is most important in life? (Erba) (percentages) 10.1 Labour market participation of women by age groups in the old and new Länder (percentages) 10.2 Living conditions of children in the old and new Länder. Married women with children were asked: 'Does your child have too little, enough or too much of the following ...?' Listed in the table are responses of 'too little' (percentages) vii List of Figures 8.1 Campaign by AFLS, 1989: 'Dans safer sex il y a avant tous le mot sexe'. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-24 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Belgian Film Comedy and National Identity....Pages 27-36 Double Lives: Europe and Identity in the Later Films of Krzysztof Kieślowski....Pages 37-50 Hitmen, Hate and Grosse Fatigue: the Search for the French Blockbuster....Pages 51-67 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Regulation for Media Pluralism: Issues in Ownership and Competition....Pages 71-93 The European ‘Goal’ and the Popular Press....Pages 94-108 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Representations of Feminism in France: Feminism, Anti-Feminism and Post-Feminism....Pages 111-128 Reflections on Gender Issues in Contemporary Europe....Pages 129-141 AIDS Prevention, Gay Identity and National Homophobia in France....Pages 142-169 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Class, Gender and Voting in Italy....Pages 173-194 Women, Work and Family in Post-Communist Germany....Pages 195-217 Women in Russia and the Former USSR: Politics, Society and Culture....Pages 218-242 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 Warfare by Other Means: Unity and Fracture in European Education....Pages 245-254 Transnational Affinities in the European Context: the Case of Contemporary French Youth Cultures....Pages 255-272 Russia’s Identity Crisis: its Effects on the Schools and the Young....Pages 273-294 Back Matter....Pages 295-297 The chapters in this volume arise from a conference, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity, held at Keele University. Concentrating on questions of history, origins, culture and citizenship, the contributors seek to evaluate the extent to which a specifically European identity has begun to emerge, and what profile this identity is beginning to take. This volume, alongside its companion volume, Why Europe? Problems of culture and identity: political and historical dimensions, addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are: What does it mean to be a European? What ideologies have shaped the political debate over the last two centuries? What place will minorities find in the Europe of the twenty-first century? What roles will women play in the future communities? Will Europe become more open to diversity, or become increasingly introspective, a fortress Europe? This volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education , addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are: what does it mean to be a European? What ideologies have shaped the political debate over the last two centuries? What place will minorities find in the Europe of the twenty-first century? What roles will women play in the future communities? Will Europe become more open to diversity, or become increasingly introspective, a 'fortress Europe'?