Charmaine Pereira is a writer and

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

scholar in

Abuja, Nigeria Abuja (; , ) is the capital city of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, strategically situated at the geographic midpoint of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria), Federal Capital Territory (FCT). As the seat of the Federal G ...

. Her work centers on feminist thought, sexuality, gender education, and civil society and the state. Pereira is also a coordinator for the Initiative for Women’s Studies in Nigeria. She is a member of Tapestry Consulting, an organization that seeks to create gender equality in the workplace in Africa.

Biography

In 1991, Pereira received a Ph.D. in Psychology of Education from

The Open University The Open University (OU) is a Public university, public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment, number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate ...

. In 2004, Charmaine Pereira co-edited ''Jacketed Women: Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa'' with Jane Bennett. Pereira currently teaches in the Sociology department at

Ahmadu Bello University The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) is a public research university located in Zaria, Nigeria, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. It was opened in 1962 as the University of Northern Nigeria. The university has four colleges, three schools, 18 faculties, ...

. Her work explores the challenges that a researcher encounters when interrogating the intersectionality of culture, gender, sexuality, law, and religion.

Selected publications

* Pereira, Charmaine. ''Gender in the Making of the Nigerian University System''. James Currey, 2007. * Pereira, Charmaine, editor. ''Changing Narratives of Sexuality: Contestations, Compliance and Women’s Empowerment''. London, New York: Zed Books, 2014. * Bennett, Jane, and Charmaine Pereira, editors. ''Jacketed Women: Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa''. Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2013. * Pereira, Charmaine. “Domesticating Women? Gender, Religion and the State in Nigeria Under Colonial and Military Rule.” ''African Identities'' 3.1 (2005): 69-94.

References

Other sources

* http://zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/changing-narratives-of-sexuality * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pereira, Charmaine Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Nigerian writers Nigerian women writers Alumni of the Open University