`Wicked` Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender

This collection of 17 essays examines the many ways African women pushed the boundaries - individually and collectively - of acceptable behaviour to produce changes in the gendered dynamics of power and a reconfiguration of broader moral and social orders. The book bridges the gap between studies of women and studies of gender by demonstrating how gender relations are produced, reproduced and transformed through the everyday ideas and agency of men and women interacting with local structures and processes.