Wild Hope
Published on 22. June 2023
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-00-839241-3 (ISBN)
Description
Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom
1974. 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
1974. 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
Reviews / Votes
A 'beguiling feminist memoir' Lindsey Hilsum'Interweaving the personal with the political, Wild Hope lyrical and rousing.' i Culture
"Blends personal and political insights to show why feminism matters more than ever." Harper's Bazaar
'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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-839241-3 (9780008392413)
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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, the i Paper, the Independent, Glamour, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, PORTER, Grazia, Stylist, Red, and Vogue.co.uk. She is the author of The Periodic Table of Feminism (Ebury, 2018), which was published in the US by Seal Press and included in Bustle's best books of the year.
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.
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.