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LOCATION: WiCDS office, 13th floor, Es'Kia Mphahlele House (above Wits Art Museum), corner Jorrisen and Jan Smuts 
DESCRIPTION:WiCDS and GALA invite you to a discussion of this groundbreaking book with author M. Wolff 
<br />In&nbsp; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s spirituality and theorizes her resistance to the regulation of intersexuality.
<br />The book urges readers to rethink bodies and belonging, particularly as they relate to formations of gender and religion. Wolff presents Gross&rsquo;s life as a guide for discerning our commitments to social justice and responsible relations.&nbsp;Body Problems &nbsp;is a timely and expansive contribution to ongoing discourses on the medical, religious and political construction of bodies.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>WiCDS and GALA invite you to a discussion of this groundbreaking book with author M. Wolff</strong><p style="text-align: center;"><span><img src="https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/faculties-and-schools/humanities/research-entities/wicds/Book Talk Body Problems - Mar 2026 (1)-400x565.jpg" alt="" title="" class="" style="   " > </span></p>
<br /><p>In&nbsp; <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/body-problems"><em>Body Problems</em></a>, <a href="https://www.augustana.edu/academics/faculty-directory/m-wolff">M. Wolff</a> offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and activist whose body was continuously policed and politicized. Gross&rsquo;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&rsquo;s spirituality and theorizes her resistance to the regulation of intersexuality.</p>
<br /><p>The book urges readers to rethink bodies and belonging, particularly as they relate to formations of gender and religion. Wolff presents Gross&rsquo;s life as a guide for discerning our commitments to social justice and responsible relations.&nbsp;<em>Body Problems</em> &nbsp;is a timely and expansive contribution to ongoing discourses on the medical, religious and political construction of bodies.</p>
SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Body Problems
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