Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging [Hardcover]

InBody 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 African National Congress 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 Problemsis a timely and expansive contribution to ongoing discourses on the medical, religious, and political construction of bodies.USM. Wolff offers a groundbreaking exploration of Sally Gross, a South African intersex scholar-priest, activist, and anti-apartheid figure whose life and body were continuously policed and politicized.M. Wolff is Associate Professor of Religion at Augustana College.“Engagingly written and extensively researched,Body Problemsis a compelling and insightful account of the life, contributions, and ongoing relevance of scholar-priest-activist Sally Gross. M. Wolff has done a remarkable job of organizing such a rich and varied life into a story that functions not only as a biography but also something more expansive and more enlightening: a provocation to think more carefully about questions of identity, the regulation of bodies, and the consequences of committing one’s life to activism.”Kent L. Brintnall, author of,Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure

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