Education
Harvard University; Smith College.
Harvard University; Smith College.
She founded the Women"s International Network in 1975, and published a quarterly journal on women"s health issues that became known, in particular, for its research into female genital mutilation (FGM). Her report on FGM, The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females (1979), was influential in persuading the international community, including the World Health Organization, to make efforts to end the practice. Hosken was born as Franziska Porges in Vienna, Austria, where her father was a physician, and emigrated with her family to the United States in 1938.
She attended Smith College, and in 1944 obtained a master"s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, one of the first women to do southern
She joined the Coast Guard during the Second World War, working in communications.