Maria Teresa HortaThe 3 Marias, all feminists, all named Maria, all mothers, all educated by nuns, wrote this book together about the lives of women in Portugal. When they submitted the text to the national censors as required by law in the closing days of the Portuguse dictatorship, they were arrested for "abusing the freedom of the press" and for pornography. Their book and their treatment became the first international protest issue of the feminist movement. With the fall of the dictatorship in 1974, their trial was ended and the charges dropped.MARIA TERESA HORTA (1937-) is a Portuguese feminist poet, journalist and activist, and a member of the Poesia 61 group. Besides more than two dozen published collections of poetry and other writings, her work has appeared in such journals as Diário de Lisboa, A Capital, República, O Século, Diário de Notícias and Jornal de Letras e Artes. She was also editor in chief of Mulheres magazine. Read More Read Less