Lourdes Garcia-Navarro's recent article on NPR, posing the question of which location is "more" sexist, the Middle East or Brazil, displays a reductionism that is all too common in Western feminist discourse. Why is clothing and the ability or purported inability of women to fashion themselves continually heralded as the most potent site of feminist resistance in the west?

After a week of uncertainty, the results of last week’s presidential election in El Salvador have been confirmed. The contest was unexpectedly close. Though many observers, including myself, had predicted an easy win for the ruling FMLN party, the final tally from the second round of voting on March 9 had the FMLN’s Salvador Sánchez Cerén securing victory by only a few thousand votes.

The past year and a half has been a volatile one for India, starting with a violent gang rape case in December 2012 that rocked the nation into an angry fury.