BOOK TALK: Body Problems

WiCDS and GALA invite you to a discussion of this groundbreaking book with author M. Wolff

In  Body Problems, M. Wolff offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and activist whose body was continuously policed and politicized. Gross’s role in founding Intersex South Africa and her involvement with the ANC are celebrated in the Apartheid Museum, but the complex dimensions of her life - from her Jewish heritage to her Christian priesthood and Buddhist practices - remain largely unexplored. Wolff illuminates these lesser-known aspects of Gross’s spirituality and theorizes her resistance to the regulation of intersexuality.

The book urges readers to rethink bodies and belonging, particularly as they relate to formations of gender and religion. Wolff presents Gross’s life as a guide for discerning our commitments to social justice and responsible relations. Body Problems  is a timely and expansive contribution to ongoing discourses on the medical, religious and political construction of bodies.

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