ABSTRACT
This chapter ostensibly considers the gender dynamics that exist within the Rastafari movement. It seeks to examine, in a discerning fashion, the various arguments that consider the movement as distinctly patriarchal. It also interrogates whether the degree of patriarchy experienced by Rastafari women varies from mansion to mansion and whether it has decreased or increased with the passage of time. It incorporates a feminist analysis in addition to the perspectives of three prominent female Rastafari scholars who have researched the gender dynamics of the Rastafari movement: Dr Imani Tafari-Ama, Maureen Rowe and Dr Obiagele Lake.
