The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory. Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.

我们可以设想，所有关于主体的理论总是适合男性的。当女性屈从于这种理论时，女性就陷入了这样一种境地：她不能意识到她这样做的同时，其实是放弃自己与自身想象之间的关系的特性，通过成为“女性”，在话语中使自己屈从于客体化。一旦她宣称她认同男性主体时，她便再度将自身客体化为男性主体。这是否是一种在自身内重新将自身认做缺失的（母亲—女性 ）客体的主体？ 主体性拒绝接受女性，作为表现、话语及欲望的客体。这无疑为每个无法精简的政体提供了财政支持。女性在可能的想象中失去自身固有的特征，这一情况是可以想见的。另一方面（客体）作为水准基点较之于主体更具*终的决定意义。因为男人可以借着反弹冲开一些客体目标而保存自身。如果没有“大地”供其压迫、压抑，供其劳作，供其表达无尽的（为己的）欲望，如果没有（女性）自身在理论中的晦暗不明的麻烦，那么“主体”的“先在”还剩下什么呢？如果大地自行旋转，尤其转向自身，也许会挫败主体的勃起，并且有可能使其丧失高度和穿透力。那么，从什么开始暴动呢？在什么之上演练他的权利呢？并且从哪里开始切入呢？

Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realtà sociale econtemporaneamente della fiction", il libro suggerisce l'inevitabilità dellasua presenza al centro della riflessione femminista. Si aprono, secondo l'autrice, enormi potenzialità per un femminismo cyborg che tenga conto della precedente riflessione socialista e non faccia leva sulla matrice naturale comeil pensiero delle politiche della differenza. Questa teoria socialfemministavuole conservare una visione globale, che tenga conto della rivoluzione industriale in atto che crea una nuova classe operaia, nuove sessualità e nuoveetnicità, mettendo in radicale discussione il sistema simbolico della famigliadell'uomo.

In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from orangutan care. Drawing on anthropology, primatology, Southeast Asian history, gender studies, queer theory, and science and technology studies, Parreñas suggests that examining workers’ care for these semi-wild apes can serve as a basis for cultivating mutual but unequal vulnerability in an era of annihilation. Only by considering rehabilitation from perspectives thus far ignored, Parreñas contends, could conservation biology turn away from ultimately violent investments in population growth and embrace a feminist sense of welfare, even if it means experiencing loss and pain.

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman." Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems. Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of wherewe might go from here.

At Lumon Industries, employees undergo "severance," a procedure dividing their work and personal memories. Mark, a grieving team leader, begins to uncover the dark secrets of the company, forcing him and his coworkers to confront questions of identity, free will, and corporate control.