 Western feminists had, Rosaldo said, viewed women elsewhere as “ourselves undressed and the historical specificity of their lives and of our own becomes obscured”.Anthropology, Moore argued, by speaking "about" and not "for" women, could overcome this bias.Marilyn Strathern characterized the sometimes antagonistic relationship between feminism and anthropology as self-sustaining, since “each so nearly achieves what the other aims for as an ideal relationship with the world.