Paulina Luisi

Overview

Paulina Luisi born Colón, Entre Rios, Argentina September 22, 1875 (d. 1949). Uruguayan reformer and abolitionist; socialist; feminist; suffragist. First Uruguayan woman doctor, 1908. As first Latin American woman delegate to League of Nations, she spearheaded discussion on the issue of white slavery. Helped bring about Uruguayan suffrage, 1927. One of five women to attend World Disarmament Conference, 1932.

Quotations

“Woman is the only one who can protect [humanity] in these tragic times from madness that from time to time overtake men’s minds and plunge millions into barbarous wars of aggression, pillage and conquest. Woman remains the only bastion for the defense of. . . humanity, life itself, lashed with crazed fury by men blinded with hatred.” (radio address, 1936, in Christine Ehrick, Radio and the Gendered, p. 107; photo Wikipedia)