Overview
Photocopies of documents pertaining to Fran P. Hosken's sex discrimination complaints against the Harvard Graduate School of Design and against the Ford Foundation.
Dates
- Creation: 1971-1981
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Fran P. Hosken is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Schlesinger Library. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.21 linear feet (1/2 file box)The collection consists of photocopies of documents concerning Fran P. Hosken's sex discrimination complaints against the Harvard Graduate School of Design and against the Ford Foundation.
Folder descriptions are those of Hosken, unless bracketed.
BIOGRAPHY
Franziska Porges Hosken earned a master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1944; she has been a journalist on urban affairs, written for Architectural Forum, and taught urban studies at the University Without Walls in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She brought a sex discrimination complaint against Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1971 and against the Ford Foundation in 1973. She is editor of WIN News, published by the Women's International Network, Lexington, Massachusetts.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 81-M215
These papers were given to the Schlesinger Library by Franziska Porges Hosken in September 1981.
Processing Information
Preliminary inventory: September 1981
By: Katherine Gray Kraft
Subject
- Harvard University. Graduate School of Design (Organization)
- National Organization for Women (Organization)
- Title
- Hosken, Fran P., 1919-2006. Papers of Fran P. Hosken, 1971-1981: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00636
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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