Ep56. Intersex, Theology, and the Bible. Susannah Cornwall

I sat down with Susannah Cornwall, Associate Professor in Constructive Theologies at the University of Exeter, to talk about her edited volume Intersex, Theology, and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text, and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). We discuss gender reveal parties, the limits of gender binaries, the ethics of performing ‘surgical corrections’ on infants, why theology often overlooks intersex people, and intersex's capacity to positively trouble unquestioned norms and dubious assumptions in religion and beyond.

Susannah Cornwall is Associate Professor in Constructive Theologies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ (Routledge, 2010), Controversies in Queer Theology (SCM Press, 2011), and Un/familiar Theology: Reconceiving Sex, Reproduction and Generativity (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017). She also edited the volume at the heart of today’s discussion, Intersex, Theology, and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text, and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

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