Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us about Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging - Softcover

Wolff, M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478032049 ISBN 13: 9781478032045

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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 African National Congress are celebrated in the Apartheid Museum, but the complex dimensions of her life - from her Jewish heritage, 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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About the Author

M. Wolff is Associate Professor of Religion at Augustana College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478032049
• ISBN 13: 9781478032045
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360