ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the composition of rape culture in the context of fear of crime and rape myths and examines the role of myth plays in the construction of rape culture and fear of crime. It argues that rape myths are part of the State apparatus of control and regulation, and, drawing from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The chapter explores how machinic thought, politics and practice might undo gendered spatial injustice and rape culture more broadly by creating 'war machines'. Rape culture works in a number of ways to stabilise perceived hierarchies of gender inequality between men and women. It is precisely through the violence of State apparatus that rape myths which compose rape culture are so convincing. In the context of the State apparatus of rape culture, composed in part through rape myth, the warrior smashes the molar prescription of the stranger-rapist.
