Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement /
"Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement is a pioneering study of women's resistance in the emergent Rastafari movement in colonial Jamaica. The movement was established in Jamaica in 1932 as a challenge to British colonialism and racism, and was roundly denounced by the gover...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2021]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Resistance and Early Rastafari Women
- The First Women to Testify in Court for the Rastafari Movement
- Petitioning Government: Women and the Colonial Justice System
- The Middle-Class Woman: Reshaping the Rastafari Family and Community
- The Rastafari Religion: A Womanist Perspective
- Women and the "Holy Herb" Dilemma
- Audrey Lewis and the History of the Early Rastafari's Development
- A Prototype of Pinnacle: Edna Fisher and the African Reform Church
- Conclusion: Disrupting the Status Quo.