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In this brief chapter, I reflect on two key pillars of rape culture that are exposed in this book. One was the extent to which rape narratives found across different legal and cultural sites in several countries showed the persistence of a taken-for-granted ‘masculine point of view’ that limits what can be spoken about rape, by whom, and how it will be heard. Relatedly, it was evident that rape—both as a physical act and as an imagined threat—still gets used to keep women in their place at the same time as it gets used to protect racialized, classed, and other hierarchies among men.
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Gavey, N. (2019). The Persistence of a Masculine Point of View in Public Narratives About Rape. In: Andersson, U., Edgren, M., Karlsson, L., Nilsson, G. (eds) Rape Narratives in Motion. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13852-3_11
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