Word: franziska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most controversial new medical treatment in Vienna today is that of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, who claims to cure both physical and mental illness through the invisible forces of "animal magnetism." Although many reputable physicians insist that this magnetism does not exist, Mesmer points to the case of Franziska Oesterlin, 28, a friend of his wife's, whom he successfully treated two years ago for hysterical convulsions, pains in the ears, toothache, fainting spells, retention of urine, and delirium. Newspaper reports of that case brought Viennese flocking to his office...
...such case, perhaps, is that of Franziska Hosken, a designer and self-styled urban critic who claims she was refused a teaching appointment at the Graduate School of Design because of her sex. A Harvard Ph.D. in Architecture, Hosken had been trying to get a job at Harvard since the late sixties, although the GSD told her that it was not searching for anyone and that she did not qualify to teach in any of its departments. She applied for "a position" and was refused so many times that Dean Maurice Kilbridge said he would no longer answer her inquiries...
Unlike Eleanor Glueck, the women now employed by the University are no longer passively accepting unfair treatment. Women at Harvard filed at least two charges of sex discrimination with HEW this year: Franziska Hosken claimed she was unfairly denied consideration for a position at the Graduate School of Design, and a group of women law school students submitted a long list of charges including claims of discriminatory admissions and financial aid policies...
...first began its investigation of the GSD in July 1971 after receiving a complaint from Franziska P. Hosken, a 1944 alumna of the School. Hosken contended that two applications to the GSD in 1970 and 1971 were ignored, although her qualifications made her eligible for several teaching positions...
...Franziska P. Hosken--the third woman graduate of the GSD--had earlier submitted a complaint against the School charging discrimination against women and minorities in faculty appointments there. She also requested, through the HEW and three Massachusetts congressmen, the release of the affirmative action plan for minority hiring practices at Harvard submitted to HEW last winter...