Full Description
`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.
Contents
Foreword, Tamar Pitch; Preface, Tamar Pitch; Introduction, Tamar Pitch; Chapter 1 From One Modernity to the Next, Tamar Pitch; Chapter 2 Preventing is Better than Curing, Tamar Pitch; Chapter 3 Prevention and Security, Tamar Pitch; Chapter 4 The Current Dimensions of Social Control, Tamar Pitch; Chapter 5 Prevention, Politics, Law, Tamar Pitch; Epilogue, Tamar Pitch;
