Sandra Manuel, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique

"This volume is a compilation of gender reflections by Sub-Saharan African scholars on the region. It responds to current gender debates that move away from biological determinism and provide in-depth and critical analyses on the diversity of men and women relations in the sub-region. Focusing on diverse themes, the chapters discuss the intersection between gender and identity, religion, historical narratives, labour and sexual identities.  Although the articles tend to focus mostly on women, the volume provides the reader a vigorous engagement with the various forms and shades in which culture has interpreted, shaped, reshaped and defined African woman and man’s identities and in the process shift or resist paradigms and gender identity. "