RastafarI women
Subtitle: subordination in the midst of liberation theology
By: Obiagele Lake.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Women in the Rastafari movement -- Jamaica.; Jamaica -- Religion.
Description: In this book, Obiagele Lake reveals the various ways that Rastafarian women are politically and culturally marginalized. In popular culture, many people view Rastafarians as a revolutionary movement at the vanguard of Diaspora African liberation. Lake challenges these contentions by exposing the lack of Rastafarian political involvement on a national scale and by addressing their regressive stance on the position of women.

This timely book utilizes RastafarI as a microcosm of Diaspora African organizations which, in general, tend to ignore the relegation of women as second-class citizens.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-185) and indexes.