# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fran-hosken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:10:51.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fran-hosken"
name: "Fran Hosken"
slug: "fran-hosken"
description: "Fran P. Hosken was an American designer, writer, feminist, and social activist. 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)."
tagline: "Writer, feminist, and social activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fran_Hosken%2C_1950_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-07-12"
deathDate: "2006-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.94
  momentum:             4.606542882404952
  historical:           7.870518666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Hosken"
    title: "Fran Hosken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فران هوسكان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Hosken"
    title: "Fran Hosken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Hosken"
    title: "Fran Hosken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Hosken"
    title: "Fran Hosken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Hosken"
    title: "Fran Hosken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farayse_Hosken"
    title: "Farayse Hosken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Hosken"
    title: "Fran Hosken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Hosken"
    title: "Fran Hosken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16017428"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump