Papers by Marco Carriola Salgado
Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación (FIEC) (1) (2) (3) Escuela Superior Politécn... more Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación (FIEC) (1) (2) (3) Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) (1) (2) (3) Campus Gustavo Galindo, Km 30.5 vía Perimetral Apartado 09-01-5863. Guayaquil, Ecuador (1) (2) (3)
Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal, 2013
Currently, feminist activists in China face significant political and cultural barriers to achiev... more Currently, feminist activists in China face significant political and cultural barriers to achieving gender equality. These activists require that a political opportunity develop allowing them fundamentally alter the barriers impeding their progress. In this essay, I examine the works of several prominent feminist theorists to cultivate a solution for this problem and apply these findings to the current political and social contexts of China. I propose that a unification of global feminism, transnational feminism, and local feminism is a necessity to properly develop the political opportunity window in China. Transnational feminism must act as a bridge between the isolated local feminists within the country and the academic-based constituency of global feminism. Transnational activists have to integrate the teachings of global feminists theorists into their efforts to aid the Chinese feminists. This methodological framework unites global feminists theories, intersectional analysis, ...
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Papers by Marco Carriola Salgado