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Podcast: Ourshelves
Episode: OurShelves with Justine Cowan
Description: How can you be a strong woman in a world that’s not built for you?Justine Cowan is an attorney used to fighting environmental cases against huge corporations but writing about her mother’s childhood in her first book, The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames led her to uncover a very different injustice. She joins Lucy Scholes to talk about finding mother figures in chosen families, rewriting history from new perspectives and how, as a female lawyer in the American South, she overcame barriers by taking courage from her heroes. Hosted on Acast. See...