How did secrecy become a tool for managing gender inequality and cultural overthrow?
I think that’s a wonderful question and I’ve given it a lot of thought, and what I think is that in anthropology we recognize that historically there is a relatively simple relationship between being a society and having a political leadership in that society that is more or less accepted by that society without domination so that there is a social structure, there are political leaders, they are the elders, they are the priests, they are the elected officials whoever they are, maybe they are heads of the family. What I am saying is that we recognize that there is a relationship, we recognize historically the relatively simple relationship between power and the society. And, of course in the last couple of decades and partly through the importance of feminist, women’s studies, gender studies and sexuality studies the code in particular, we now realize that the relationship of power to the society is much more complex. And, secrecy is one manifestation of this relationship which I think
