Pervasive Prevention

`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.