Word: hosken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strongly resent the anti-German nature of S. Allen Counter's letter in response to Harkensson's movie. Mr. Counter seemed to be obsessed with the image of the inherently evil German. Why does he repetitively mention that Fran Hosken is Harkensson's German companion? I have never encountered a German woman with this name, but that is irrelevant to the subject matter discussed here. Whether Harkensson's assistant is German, Jewish, black or Russian is not important...
...would also like to know whether Mr. Counter inspected Ms. Hosken's passport to verify whether or not she was German or Scandanavian...
Only a concerted international effort will reduce the prevalence of genital mutilation of females throughout Africa, Fran P. Hosken, editor of the Women's International Network News, told a small crowd at the Science Center yesterday...
...Female circumcision" operations--the removal of most or all of the external genitalia of female children--occur throughout continental Africa, as well as in the southern Arabian peninsula, Hosken said...
These societies traditionally teach women that the operations are necessary before marriage and fertility, Hosken said. "We wish to lay to rest the fiction that women want to have these operations," she said, adding "In fact, the women have no choice...