I think people are cautious, but I think caution is different from resistance. Universities are slow to change. ... I think there is an institutional crisis when a new field emerges and comes into its own. |
People have only just started to focus in on [sexuality studies], to see it as having sustained importance as something like gender and race. Understanding of the way culture works or thinking about history is really incomplete without a specific analysis of sexuality. |
Students need to know about classes in this field; there needs to be a place to go and find out about these kind of classes. |
That's my motivation in doing it, that this is something that is really going to serve the students at Penn and that they're excited about it. |