 | Pervasive Prevention: A Feminist Reading of the Rise of the Security Society Subjects: Law; Social Sciences; Criminal Law & Practice; Socio-Legal Studies; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Sociology & Social Policy; Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law; Political Sociology; `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. Tamar Pitch |
