	In 2004, Charmaine Pereira co-edited "Jacketed Women: Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa" with Jane Bennett. Pereira has a PhD in Psychology of Education from The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Pereira teaches in the Sociology department at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. Pereira’s work explores the challenges that a researcher encounters when interrogating the intersectionality of culture, gender, sexuality, law, and religion.