Cheryl Benard

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Cheryl Benard (* 1953 in New Orleans ) is an American - Austrian social scientist and former child actress .

Life

Cheryl Benard heads the international cultural organization ARCH, Alliance for the Restoration of Cultural Heritage, which deals with the protection of tangible and intangible cultural assets in crisis areas. It is the consultant RAND Corporation , where she most recently research initiatives IMEY (initiative for Middle Eastern Youth, dt. Initiative for Youth in the Middle East ) and alternative strategies (Alternative Strategies Initiative) initiated. From 1992 to 2005, together with the social scientist Edit Schlaffer , she headed the Ludwig Boltzmann Research Center for Politics and Interpersonal Relationships in Vienna, which was closed in 2005.

Benard's study Civil Democratic Islam sparked fierce controversy , especially in fundamentalist circles. She recommends supporting Islamic reformers and currents that advocate secularization , and expresses criticism of the views and programs of (radical) Islamists . She is a novelist and feminist author dealing with topics such as current events, the role of women in state building, youth radicalization in the European diaspora, and secularization in relation to Islam . In the last few years she has put the latter focus into practical implementation as part of her RAND work, with funding projects for pro-democratic, modernization-friendly dissidents in the Islamic world. Cheryl Benard received a doctorate from the University of Vienna and a bachelor's degree from the American University of Beirut . She is married to Zalmay Khalilzad , the former US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations and now a member of the right-wing conservative think tank " Project for the New American Century ". You have two children.

Appearances as a child actress

As a child, Cheryl Benard played in a total of six German film productions, four of them in 1958. She had her most striking appearance alongside Marianne Koch in the homeland film Die Landärztin (1958) in the role of Hannerl . The last time she was seen in 1964 in the television production ( Südwestfunk ) The purest angels .

bibliography

Together with Edit Schlaffer

  • Ordinary violence in marriage. Texts on a sociology of power and love. Reinbek near Hamburg 1978: Rowohlt
  • The man on the street. About the strange behavior of men in everyday situations. Reinbek near Hamburg 1980: Rowohlt
  • Notes on visits to the countryside. A gray look into the green. Reinbek near Hamburg 1981: Rowohlt
  • The limits of sex. Instructions for the Overthrow of the International Patriarchate. Reinbek near Hamburg 1984: Rowohlt
  • Love stories from the patriarchy. About the excessive willingness of women to come to terms with what is available. Reinbek near Hamburg 1984: Rowohlt
  • Experienced a lot and understood nothing. The men and the women's movement. Reinbek near Hamburg 1985: Rowohlt
  • In the jungle of feelings. Expeditions into the depths of passion. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987: Rowohlt
  • Backwards and on high heels ... women can do as much as men. Cologne 1989: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
  • Finally leave men alone. Or How to love them less and yourself more. Reinbek near Hamburg 1990: Rowohlt
  • Tell us where the fathers are. About the work addiction and desertion of the second parent Reinbek near Hamburg 1991: Rowohlt
  • You are nothing without us. What women mean to men. Munich 1992: Heyne
  • Mothers make men. How sons grow up. Munich 1994: Heyne
  • Infinitely feminine. The weaker sex: strong in coming. Munich 1995: Heyne
  • The kid who mistook his father for a Saturday. Munich 1996: Heyne
  • How girls become great women. Self-confidence beyond all clichés (1997) ISBN 3-453-17264-7

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personal data
SURNAME Benard, Cheryl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Austrian social scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans