WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 28: (FOR MAGAZINE) Maria Teresa Kumar, founder of Voto Latino, a voting rights organization for Latinos, stands for a Just Asking portrait at the nonprofit's headquarters in ...

By Adam Nossiter Maria Teresa Horta, a Portuguese feminist writer who helped shatter her conservative country’s strictures on women, died on Feb. 4 at her home in Lisbon. She was 87. Her death ...