Rastafari reasoning and the Rastawoman

Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman: Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity examines the complex ways that gender and race intersected in the shaping of a liberation movement propelled by conscious contact with an African spiritual ethos in the Caribbean. Countering the predominant static view of Rastafari women, Jeanne Christensen restores agency to the RastaWoman's subversive participation in the ritual known as Reasoning. With its powerful,