《厌女》不是一部纯理论性著作，而是运用女性主义理论针对日本当代的各种社会现象的实践性分析。《厌女》处理了广泛的日本题材，其中既有文学性的，比如谈到小说家吉行淳之介、永井荷风、林真理子等，更多的则是社会性的。上野千鹤子谈到的许多现象，尤其是家庭的、婚姻的，在中国也有很类似的情况。知性的读者会从这些论述中获得强烈共鸣并得到理论上的指引。

《关于他人的痛苦》是苏珊·桑塔格继《论摄影》之后又一本关于摄影的专著，也是她生前的最后一部作品。这本书聚焦于战争摄影，探讨影像反映出的人的痛苦与观者之间的关系。惨不忍睹的影像尽管能唤起观者的悲悯之心，但人们的无能为力感更让这些在生活中无孔不入，又格格不入的影像显得多余而荒诞。若不经思考而直接相信影像之内容，我们的道德判断力只会愈来愈弱。桑塔格以纯文字书写影像，为观者提供思考空间以正视“他人的痛苦”。

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a century, “heterosexual” had become a byword for “normal,” enshrined in law, medicine, psychiatry, and the media as a new gold standard for human experience. With an eclectic scope and fascinating detail, Straight tells the eye-opening story of a complex and often contradictory man-made creation that turns out to be anything but straight or narrow.
From the Hardcover edition.