Classes taught by Paige Sweet in NYC, New York

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$335

4 sessions

Introduction to Intersectionality

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Intersectionality, a term coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, forcefully challenges the idea that gender is the primary factor organizing women’s lives. Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory, Crenshaw maintains that the experience of being a woman must be understood through the interrelation of race and gender. In other words, she proposes racial justice as central to feminist theory and politics. In the 30-plus years since the publication...

Beginner 21 and older

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Kathy Acker: Experimentation and Transgression

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Spanning many forms—novels, plays, and essays—Kathy Acker’s work is hard to classify. Above all, Acker aims to challenge established literary conventions, and she does so by experimenting with methods of cut-up (inspired by William S. Burroughs), mash-up, sampling, and transposition. She “steals” characters and plotlines from writers like Charles Dickens, Georges Bataille, Daniel Hawthorne, and Emily Brontë. And she mines content from...

All levels 21 and older

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Kaja Silverman’s Male Subjectivity at the Margins

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How is masculinity constructed, and what would it mean, sexually, culturally, and politically, to construct it differently? For art historian and theorist Kaja Silverman, “There is nothing ‘natural’ or innocent about sexuality.” Our subjective experience of gender and sexuality is deeply entwined with prevailing ideology, and for conventional male subjects, identity and power are bound up particularly with the symbol of the phallus. ...

All levels 21 and older

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Literature and Psychoanalysis

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Literature has been fertile ground for psychoanalysis ever since Freud’s first musings. Psychoanalysis borrows rampantly from literary texts, be it Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Goethe’s Faust, or Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Simultaneously, literary critics have deployed psychoanalytic concepts and insights—about trauma, desire, ambivalence, and the unconscious—to interpret how anxiety, loss, hate, sex, love, race, and truth operate...

All levels 21 and older

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