Abstract: In the wake of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overturning Roe v. Wade , which relied on a distorted understanding of early modern abortion laws, it is crucial we return to the 1650 case of Anne Greene, an Oxfordshire servant who miscarried at eighteen weeks and was convicted of infanticide and hanged. By doing so, I argue that women's anger is a powerful resource for countering epistemic injustices and recuperating our rights over bodily autonomy. Drawing from Audre Lorde's "Uses of Anger," this paper shows how female anger is virtuous, transformative, productive, inclusive, and necessary to bring about a more reproductively just world.
Joanna Huh (Sun,) studied this question.