Mary Wilhelmine Williams
/Overview
Mary Wilhelmine Williams born Stanislas County, CA May 14, 1878 (d. 1944). Professor of Latin American studies. Suffragist founder of California National Women’s Party; pacifist WILPF member. Feminist editor of Equal Rights, 1935-36.
Quotations
On WWII: “This andro-centric, man-ruled world which is now destroying itself is a disgrace to all humanity. . . Women should. . . secure a partnership in world management on a fifty-fifty basis. . .” (Equal Rights, June 1942, p. 47, in Katharine Moreno, “Transnational Pan-American”, p. 78; photo novalynx.com)