Construcción de identidad narrativa, en relación a la belleza y el deber ser

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to understand how the dominant discourses on beauty and the need to be, permeate the construction of identity narratives of three women, in order to co-construct spaces where the emergence of generative stories about themselves is favored. It is recognized that these discourses are promoted by hegemonic sources of power and are rooted in the social fabric, being a form of symbolic violence towards women, which is naturalized and fed back by them, since the fulfillment of these discourses implies personal gains, social and economic that leads them to accept what determines them. However, discourses on beauty and what should be lead women to make a selection of stories, dissociating them with their internal reality and reducing them to elements that do not account for their integrality, resulting in physical and psychological deterioration. In this sense, a second order qualitative research was carried out, where the voice of the researchers is involved and contributes to the complex understanding of the phenomenon, through self-reference. This is where the project acquires a narrative character, since the experience of the participants and investigators is studied from their stories, which were compiled, through tools such as non-participant observation, interviews and conversational settings. In this way, interviews were conducted to each of the participants to account for their understanding of the phenomenon and co-construct reflective conversational scenarios that facilitated the emergence of narratives against their identity construction, in relation to beauty and duty be. For the analysis of the information, a categorical analysis was carried out with the objective of recognizing the interaction between the different conceptual categories, which were articulated with the methodological constructs of the project. Through the information collected, the importance of the emancipation of women was understood, as opposed to social discourses that hinder the emergence of generative narratives, through processes of vindication of rights, where women are recognized from their integrality, connection with themselves and the recognition itself