水俣病是由于工业废水排放污染造成的公害病，因1956年发生于日本熊本水俣市而得名。作为日本经济高速发展的负面遗产，水俣事件戳破了为了经济成长而忽视社会福祉的时代弊病。而在1990年，日本负责调解水俣事件的官员山内丰德，忽然自杀身亡。
山内的自杀引发媒体哗然，1991年，28岁的导演是枝裕和，因执导《可是……抛弃福祉的时代》纪录片拜访了山内的遗孀，借此走进这位官员53年的人生轨迹。过程中，是枝被山内丰德这个人物深深吸引。跟随着山内夫人的证言和山内留下的大量信件、诗歌、随笔、论文等，一个理想主义者的悲剧侧面渐渐浮现出来。
在他追求做一个纯粹的人时，将他的人生变得危机四伏的“官僚”究竟是怎样的职业？
为什么他会在诗中刻上“可是”的句子，得出“云没有回答”的结论呢?
热爱诗歌的山内和文学部出身的导演是枝之间的共情，让这一记录跳脱出纪实报导的框架，平静中让人热泪盈眶，并直接影响了是枝导演两部重要作品《幻之光》、《无人知晓》的诞生。

◎日本女性主义理论第一人、《厌女》作者上野千鹤子 面向普通读者的女性主义普及课
◎女性为何如此艰难？女性如何奋斗至今？又该如何奋斗？
◎工作、婚恋、育儿，该如何以女性主义的角度思考？
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【编辑推荐】
※去年东京大学入学演讲《等待着你的是即使努力也无法获得回报的社会》引发热议，使上野千鹤子成为了明星学者与作家。本书是继《厌女》《父权制与资本主义》在中国出版之后，她备受期待的新作。
※本书也是上野千鹤子的第一本面向普通读者的女性主义普及读物。不像她比较艰深的学术著作，本书语言幽默平实、通俗易懂，在轻松的对谈形式中向大众普及女性主义的内涵、历史，以及如何以女性主义角度思考日常中的工作、婚恋、育儿问题。
※本书内容触及现代女性所关心的核心问题，揭示了在当今社会中女性仍然面对的诸多不公与困境。上野千鹤子从自身的经历着手，将女性主义放置在个人生活的背景中，告诉我们女性主义不仅仅关乎女性，更关乎每个人的日常生活。
※本书辅以日本人气漫画家田房永子的漫画，在轻松愉悦的氛围中，接受一次女性主义的洗礼。
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【内容简介】
女性主义是什么？为什么我们需要女性主义？如何用女性主义进行思考？
围绕上述种种问题，日本著名学者上野千鹤子与知名漫画家田房永子，开始了一场从零开始的女性主义课堂。她们用幽默的语言、传神的漫画，回溯女性主义的发展历程，畅谈母女关系、性、工作、婚恋、育儿等日常生活中的议题，驳斥关于女性的刻板偏见。
这堂课不仅开启了一趟全新的旅程，更告诉我们：女性主义，不仅仅关乎女性，更关乎每个人的日常生活。

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family?
What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations.
With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Lia's pediatricians, Neil Ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, cleaved just as strongly to another tradition: that of Western medicine. When Lia Lee Entered the American medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication.
Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas about the causes of her illness and its treatment could hardly have been more different. The Hmong see illness aand healing as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while medical community marks a division between body and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former. Lia's doctors ascribed her seizures to the misfiring of her cerebral neurons; her parents called her illness, qaug dab peg --the spirit catches you and you fall down--and ascribed it to the wandering of her soul. The doctors prescribed anticonvulsants; her parents preferred animal sacrifices.