Book
Silent voices speak: women and prohibition in Truk
Wadsworth Pub. Co. • Belmont, Calif. • Published In 1990 • Pages: xiii, 190
By: Marshall, Mac, Marshall, Leslie B..
Abstract
This is a focused study of the women's termperance movement on Moen Island, Chuuk Islands, between 1976 and 1985. Mac Marshall has written extensively on Chuuk drinking behavior (see document no. 33) and had the opportunity to study the successful enactment of prohibition in the municipality of Moen. The impetus for prohibition came from women who petitioned locals and demonstrated outside government buildings. The Marshalls show how the temperance movement rose from both women's church clubs and the broader-based coalitions they formed with other groups throughout the Pacific. They also compare the Chuuk movement with the nineteenth century temperance movement in the United States, and with similar movements throughout the the Pacific Islands. The Marshalls note that whereas the temperance moverment modernized women by forcing them onto the public stage, they were motivated by traditional concerns for domestic welfare.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1999
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Micronesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field Date
- 1969-1985
- Coverage Date
- 1976-1985
- Coverage Place
- Moen Island, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
- Notes
- Mac Marshall and Leslie B. Marshall
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-163)
- LCCN
- 89035287
- LCSH
- Trukese (Micronesian people)