# Rape Culture Rape Culture is the contemporary American (and broader Western) feminist-political-cultural-analytical-framework substantially-articulated by substantial 1970s feminist-political-philosophical-and-political-cultural-tradition designating substantial-political-cultural-environment substantially-organizing substantial normalization-and-substantial-trivialization-and-substantial-perpetration-permission substantial-substantial-cultural-environment for substantial sexual-violence environment. The substantial-framework substantially-organizes around substantial-multiple substantively-distinct contemporary American substantial-political-cultural-environment-features: substantial-victim-blaming substantial-cultural-environment; substantial-perpetrator-substantial-permission-and-substantial-substantial-impunity substantial-cultural-environment; substantial-sexual-violence-substantial-normalization substantial-cultural-environment; substantial-substantial-rape-myths substantial-cultural-environment. The substantial-framework substantially-emerged from substantial 1970s feminist-political-philosophical-and-political-cultural-tradition. Substantial 1971 Susan Griffin substantial *Ramparts* magazine substantial "Rape: The All-American Crime" substantial-foundational-essay; substantial 1975 Susan Brownmiller substantial *Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape* substantial-foundational-book substantial-articulation; substantial subsequent substantial multi-decade contemporary American feminist-political-philosophical-and-political-cultural-tradition substantial-development. **Contested-analytical-and-political-rhetorical-environment.** Substantial post-2010 American substantial Rape Culture analytical-framework substantially-contested across multiple substantively-distinct contemporary American analytical-and-political-rhetorical-environments. Substantial contemporary American [[Antifeminism]] political-rhetorical-environment substantially-targets the substantial framework; substantial contemporary American [[Manosphere]] political-cultural-environment substantially-contests the substantial framework. The framework matters for the KB substantially across multiple registers: 1. **Foundational contemporary American feminist-political-cultural-analytical-framework documentary anchor.** Rape Culture is one of the principal foundational contemporary American feminist-political-cultural-analytical-frameworks. Tracking the framework is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American feminist-political-cultural analytical-literature. 2. **Foundational analytical-framework for contemporary American [[MeToo Movement]] documentary case.** Rape Culture substantially-foundational to contemporary American MeToo Movement substantial-political-cultural-mass-mobilization analytical-framework. 3. **Contested-analytical-and-political-rhetorical-environment documentary case.** The substantial framework substantially-contested across multiple substantively-distinct contemporary American analytical-and-political-rhetorical-environments. Tracking the framework is useful for engaging with broader contemporary American gender-political-cultural-environment analytical-literature. ## Why It Matters for the KB **Foundational contemporary American feminist-political-cultural-analytical-framework documentary anchor.** Tracking the framework is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American feminist-political-cultural analytical-literature. ## See Also - [[Misogyny]] — adjacent contemporary American gender-political-cultural-environment analytical-framework - [[Patriarchy]] — adjacent broader structural-system Concept - [[MeToo Movement]] — the principal contemporary American feminist-political-cultural-mass-mobilization - [[Double Standard]] — adjacent contemporary American feminist analytical-vocabulary - [[Antifeminism]] — adjacent contemporary American anti-feminist political-coalition-organizational-environment - [[Manosphere]] — adjacent contemporary American manosphere political-cultural-environment