ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on graphic texts of girlhood as a form of societal curriculum. The wolf promises to facilitate a break from the doldrums of the sanctioned curriculum. The visual-verbal framing of Little Red Riding Hood as naive schoolgirl animates associations with sexual knowledge. The tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" can be read as a primer in rape culture as fault adheres to the schoolgirl rather than to the wolf. The chapter describes how a cultural pedagogy of sexual violence is embedded within everyday texts like the children's picture book, a format often marketed as simple or innocent. Feminists in the 1970s first used the term "rape culture" to name systemic violence against girls and women. Rape culture is "a complex set of beliefs that encourages male sexual aggression and supports violence against women a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violent".
