JÉSSICA OMENA VALMORBIDA

The objective of this project is to analyze the narrative model of the constitution of identity and agency in Seyla Benhabib. Our hypothesis is that a narrative approach is useful in responding to the feminist claim for engagement and situationality of the self, while expanding the notion of agency. The change from a conception of an abstract self to an intersubjectively situated and formed self requires a change in the notion of agency which, in Benhabib, is understood as the ability to distance oneself from one's contexts and create new combinations from existing codes and unique narrative of your life story – and not as an autonomous individual choice. Narrativity provides a model of agency without losing sight of the grid, situationality and heteronomy of the self. By safeguarding the resistance capacity of a situated and heteronomous self, Benhabib expands agency by making it possible in contexts in which there is still gender subjugation.