Charmaine Pereira

Charmaine Pereira is a writer and feminist scholar in Abuja, Nigeria. 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.
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. Her work explores the challenges that a researcher encounters when interrogating the intersectionality of culture, gender, sexuality, law, and religion.