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Retracing my mother’s footsteps in search of women’s freedom1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in Omaha, Nebraska, thousands of miles from home. In 2022, the US Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, restricting access to abortion across America. The decision mirrored a global trend towards a devastating unravelling of women’s freedoms; a reversal of hard-won progress, and a battle that continues to be fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Following in the footsteps of her mother fifty years before her, Marisa Bate is galvanised to journey across America, meeting the women on the ground, and telling the stories behind the headlines. Examining half a century of feminist struggle in the UK and the US, she also finds herself tracing the roots of her own family, seamlessly interweaving the personal with the political. Lyrical, poignant, and bursting with defiant hope, And Still We March is an urgent and perceptive dissection of female autonomy, motherhood, and a woman’s right to choose. A ‘beguiling feminist memoir’ Lindsey Hilsum

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‘One of our finest reporters on women’s lives, Marisa is both a tender observer and a passionate writer. Her words offer us a map back to hope when we need it the most. A determined, passionate meditation on both the complexity and magic of womanhood. Through providing us with evidence of other women’s hope, Marisa gives us the courage to find our own. Marisa deftly combines an intensely personal quest with a political one. The result is a book that leaves its reader with something priceless: a fresh, fierce determination to hope.’ Natasha Lunn ‘Marisa Bate is a richly talented writer and Wild Hope bursts with fury, passion and love. It's hard to put down and even harder to forget.’ Will Storr ‘Wild Hope is Marisa Bate’s tremendous ode to the women who built her; Bate has a rare ability to inform, educate and powerfully move you with her writing. As she follows in her mother’s footsteps to the US, Bate takes us on an ambitious journey that captures the spirit of the 1970s, and reminds us that we still have much to fight and hope for.’ Helena Lee

‘Interweaving the personal with the political, Wild Hope lyrical and rousing.’ i Culture ‘A book that leaves its reader with something priceless: a fresh, fierce determination to hope.’ Natasha Lunn ‘Marisa Bate is a richly talented writer and Wild Hope bursts with fury, passion and love. It's hard to put down and even harder to forget.’ Will Storr ‘Bate takes us on an ambitious journey that captures the spirit of the 1970s, and reminds us that we still have much to fight and hope for.’ Helena Lee

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Marisa Bate was the first member of staff at the Webby-winning 'The Pool' and has built a respected and trusted name as a feminist journalist, writing for, amongst others, the Guardian, the Times, The Telegraph, Glamour, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, PORTER, and Vogue.co.uk. She is the author of The Periodic Table of Feminism (Ebury, 2018). Marisa is a regular commentator on feminist issues, with recent appearances across TV radio including BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight and Woman's Hour. Marisa holds an MA in Twentieth Century Literature and its Intellectual Contexts from Goldsmiths, London. Her piece about Doria Ragland, single mothers and her own mother was The Pool's highest performing piece of content ever.

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