Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement

by Daive Dunkley

Winner of the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award

Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement is a pioneering study of women's resistance in the emergent Rastafari movement in colonial Jamaica. As D. A. Dunkley demonstrates, Rastafari women had to contend not only with the various attempts made by the government and nonmembers to suppress the movement, but also with oppression and silencing from among their own ranks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807175692
• ISBN13: 9780807175699
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"