Benhabib
In trying to get background for my course (and my own interests in epistemology, the self and gender), I came across Seyla Benhabib (Yale). Apparently, she’s been influenced by Jurgen Habermas. I’m taking a course at Loyola on Habermas in the fall, so I’ll have some background on her influence later. But the reason I want to read this particular feminist philosopher is because, as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says, she is "committed to viewing people as socially situated, interpersonally bonded, and embodied…[and] also committed to the feasibility of rational philosophical justification for universal norms."
Instead of arguing that the multiple narratives constituting our selves means that the idea of a self is incoherent, Benhabib says that because we can reflect on these narratives, we have a "core capacity to describe and reflect on one’s experience." Again, this connects back to Christine Korsgaard’s intuition about human reflexivity being essential for ethics.
Anyway, I’ll have to wait to dive into her work, but anyone with other suggestions, leave them in comments. I’ll be using the bibliography in that article and another one
(I have to thank Brit and the commenter at her blog for sending me to these resources.)
Image: Situating the Self, by Seyla Benhabib.