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• Looking at the wider culture—the beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and the institutions that express them—in which rape notonly exists but flourishes, rape culture is demonstrated in a variety of ways, such as in the values and assumptions about women’s and men’s“natural” propensitiesandin the stereotypes about women’s sexual desire(or lack the...
• the existence of rape culturehas allowed men to deny its existence while framing the common occurrence of rape as an aberration committed by “evil” people (rather than by otherwise “normal” men).
• Rape culture is also demonstratedin thenorms that govern interactionsand that are then the foundation for disputes between women and men,and inthe institutions such as courts and police enforcement that reinforce these norms

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