Called from Within: Early Women Lawyers of Hawai?i

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Mari J. Matsuda
University of Hawaii Press, 1992 M01 1 - 344 pages
The 17 women of the Hawaii bar whose biographies are presented lived through, and were involved in, the dramatic changes that brought Hawaii from monarchy independent Republic to Territory and, finally, to statehood. The introducti by editor Matsuda places the lives of these early women lawyers in t

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Contents

Introduction
17
Marguerite Kamehaokalani Ashford 377
37
Carrick Hume Buck 52 12
52
Rose August
76
Jean Vaughan Gilbert
86
Rhoda Lewis
105
Ruth Winifred Loomis
133
Harriet Bouslog
148
Betty Morrison Vitousek
191
Margaret Scott Tekeli
211
Alana Wai Lan Wong Lau
221
Marybeth Yuen Maul
239
Mary Helen McCrea Stevens Weaver Pitts
281
Lily Miyamoto Okamoto
310
Other Women in the Law Before Statehood
323
Index
337

Sau Ung Loo Chan
172

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Mari J. Matsuda received her B. A. from Arizona State University, her J. D. from the University of Hawaii, and her LL. M. from Harvard University. She has taught at the University of Hiroshima, Stanford University, the University of Hawaii, University of California at Los Angeles and at Georgetown University's Law Center. Matsuda has written articles on hate speech, affirmative action and feminist concerns. Her books include "We Won't Go Back" and "Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment," both of which were written with her husband, Charles R, Lawrence.

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