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Edit Schlaffer (born September 25, 1950 in Stegersbach ) is an Austrian social scientist and feminist . The focus of her research, publications and activities are women in international politics and as actors in civil society and interpersonal relationships.

life and work

Edit Schlaffer's father was a civil servant, her mother a teacher. She grew up with her grandmother on a farm in Stegersbach until she was six .

She studied sociology in Vienna , where she also received her doctorate. At the university she experienced how conservative the revolutionary 1968ers were in dealing with women. When she was teaching at the Academy for Social Work in Vienna in the 1970s, she began to be interested in the women's movement. In 1981 she founded the feminist human rights organization Amnesty for Women with Cheryl Benard . They wanted to draw attention to the shortcomings of Amnesty International and document gender-specific human rights violations. They argued that women in the developing world are infinitely worse off than women in the West, and that the terminology of European feminism does not capture their suffering.

From 1982 to 2005 she and Benard headed the Ludwig-Boltzmann Research Center for Politics and Interpersonal Relationships in Vienna.

Schlaffer and Benard wrote a number of books on feminist issues in Europe, including the 1978 Sociological Study of Domestic Violence and Marital Rape . Numerous books that she wrote with Benard about gender relations describe the everyday problems in the professional and private life of women, such as in their most famous backwards and on high heels ... women can do as much as men from 1989.

Schlaffer is the founder and chairwoman of the international organization Women Without Borders (2002) based in Vienna, which aims to promote communication between Western and Arab women and their political leadership. In 2008 she founded SAVE ("Sisters Against Violent Extremism"), the first global anti-terror platform that brings women in different countries together to work together against violent extremism. For her study Mothers for Change , on behalf of the Austrian Science Fund, she and Ulrich Kropiunigg interviewed a thousand mothers in Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, Nigeria and Austria whose children have slipped into Islamic extremism. As part of her organization Women Without Borders , she worked for years in “mothers' schools” with mothers of jihadists and suicide bombers around the world and with women who want to prevent their sons from being recruited for jihad by organizations like ISIS . Edit Schlaffer takes the view that one must start with the mothers in order to counteract the radicalization of Muslim youth and young adults. The preventive projects for mothers' schools against extremism have been in place in Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Indonesia in some cases since 2012; they were opened in Austria in 2015.

Awards

  • In 2005 Edit Schlaffer received the Käthe Leichter State Prize . In 2010 she was voted one of the “21 Leaders of the 21st Century” by the American news agency Women's eNews in New York for her platform SAVE, making her the first Austrian to receive the award. The award goes to women who work to improve the living conditions of women worldwide. In 2014 the Daily Beast added her to the list of the “World's Women of Consequence”.
  • 2018 it was by the editors of Reader's Digest for European of the Year chosen.

Publications

Together with Cheryl Benard:

  • 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
  • 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 Munich 1997: Heyne
  • The emotion trap. On the triumph of the female mind. Frankfurt am Main 1999: Krüger
  • The physics of love. Why Confident Women Have Better Relationships. Munich 2001: Kösel.
  • Politics is a wild animal. Afghan women are fighting for their future . Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 2002.
  • Superpower man - or the end of reason. Vienna 2003: Ueberreuter.
  • Happy despite the man. Partnership and its myths. Frankfurt am Main 2004: Krüger.

Web links

Commons : Edit Schlaffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edit Schlaffer: "Almost all fathers feel caught" , Die Presse, print edition, February 14, 2010
  2. ^ Lora Wildenthal: The Language of Human Rights in West Germany , University of Pennsylvania Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-8122-4448-9 , p. 152
  3. ↑ Psychotherapist and professor for medical psychologist at the Medical University of Vienna
  4. ↑ “Only mothers learn of the fears of jihadists” . Interview with Edit Schlaffer. By Nina Weißensteiner, DER STANDARD, December 16, 2014
  5. ^ Edit Schlaffer: Strategies against Jihadists , Oe1.ORF.at., January 10, 2015
  6. ↑ Mothers' schools against extremism are being established in Austria , derStandard.at, March 2, 2015
  7. ^ Kaethe Leichter Prize Winners
  8. ↑ Isabella Lechner: Great performance in small steps , the standard February 18, 2010
  9. ↑ The 2014 List of World's Women of Consequence ( Memento from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Edit Schlaffer is “European of the Year” on ORF on January 22nd, 2018, accessed on January 22nd, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Slacker, Edit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šlafer, Edit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stegersbach