ABSTRACT

`The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society. This book shows the connections and differences between these explanations, whilst providing a gender reading of the ways in which social control manifests itself through precautionary measures. Today’s diffuse and pervasive prevention imperative symbolizes both a self-defining doctrine and the justification for a means of repression, segregation, and exclusion. From bodies to daily life and preventative war, Pervasive Prevention investigates the effects of this imperative for social control, its connection with neo-liberal hegemonic ideology, and the centrality in its dealings with women and the feminine.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|39 pages

From One Modernity to the Next

chapter Chapter 2|19 pages

Preventing is Better than Curing

chapter Chapter 3|20 pages

Prevention and Security

chapter Chapter 4|14 pages

The Current Dimensions of Social Control

chapter Chapter 5|17 pages

Prevention, Politics, Law

chapter |12 pages

Epilogue