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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dunkley, Daive A., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
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.