In this article Saswati Chakrabarti unveil the institutionalized male dominance and sexual violence in marriage. When “by force” is the prime parameter of rape the writer says, “consent is not enough where child marriage, dowry death, sati, virginity test at marriage are rather normal customs.”

Central America has a long history of tremendous struggle against various forms of oppression since the first European "explorers" shed indigenous blood. While mainstream and patriarchal historians have often downplayed or completely disregarded the roles that women across Central America have played in revolutionary struggle, recently a number of activist-scholars have attempted to rewrite this history to reflect the massive contributions of women who fought back, with rifles and with pen. A review by Melissa Hussain.