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...writer-defendants, all in their 30s and all mothers of small children, are Maria Velho da Costa and Maria Isabel Barreno, both published novelists who do research for Portugal's Ministry of Economics, and Maria Teresa Horta, a well-known poet who edits the literary supplement of a Lisbon newspaper. The book they put together from their writings-they collaborated through an exchange of views in letters and at weekly lunches and dinners-is no mere feminist tract but a work of literary merit. It is now being translated into several languages and will be published...
...them worst is the role of mother. Society idealizes the role, of course, but the idealization masks the slavery of it." The new book is broader than this, however. "It has many themes," asserts the highly intellectual Velho da Costa. "Passion, oppression and especially love." But the more emotional Horta insists that "the book has one great theme, and that is the liberation of women...
Phallic Women. Of the three authors, Horta is the most fervently feminist: "I am not for the emancipation of women, but for their liberation. Emancipation is only a legal term, only a political event. It is the pathetic attempt of women trying to be like men, to make it in a male world. But liberation-ah, that is freedom. That is when man is removed entirely as the model of behavior and a woman is free to become herself." Horta believes that men, too, are oppressed. "But the relative pain of the two sexes is not comparable. Besides the social...
Whether militant like Horta or moderate like Velho da Costa, active Women's Liberationists have been virtually unheard of in Portugal, where old ideas about "a woman's place" are so deeply ingrained that few women are even conscious of them. Yet when New Portuguese Letters came out in April 1972, one-third of the original printing of 3,000 copies was sold within a month. Then the regime of Premier Marcello Caetano cracked down. Officials invoked a new law that makes writers criminally responsible for their work if the censors, who render judgments only after publication, voice...
...Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), flanked as it is by examples of the Iberian monumentality and primitivism Picasso assimilated into the savage proto-Cubism of his brothel scene, illustrates the creative process which brought him to his more mature forms of analytic art. The studiedly severe colors of his "Reservoir Horta" (1909) and "Girl with a Mandolin" (1910) show the progression from Cezanne's architectonics to the crystalline space-time continuum that was to break up the contemporary universe into the figurative metaphors of the Cubists' conceptions...