Carole Pateman

Carole Pateman FBA FAcSS
Carole Pateman in 2015
Born	(1940-12-11) 11 December 1940 Sussex, England
Nationality	British and U.S.
Institutions	University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Known for	Criticism of liberal democracy
Notable awards	Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science

Carole Pateman (born 11 December 1940) is a world-renowned feminist and political theorist. She is known as a critic of liberal democracy and has been a member of the British Academy since 2007.

Biography

Lecture by Pateman during the UN Beijing+20: More Women in Politics seminar

Pateman was born in Sussex, England and has had an international career, living in four continents and teaching and doing research in three. Educated at a grammar school, she left at age 16. She entered Ruskin College, Oxford in 1963, attended Lady Margaret Hall, and became lecturer in political theory at the University of Sydney in 1972.

She earned a DPhil at the University of Oxford. Since 1990, Professor Pateman has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where she is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Professor Pateman served as (the first woman) President of the International Political Science Association (1991-94). In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the British Academy. She served as President of the American Political Science Association in 2010–11. She is also an Honorary Professor for the Cardiff University School of European Studies.

She gave the Faculty Research Lecture at UCLA in 2001, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy and the UK Academy of Social Sciences. She holds honorary degrees from the Australia National University, the National University of Ireland, and Helsinki University. In 2012 she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.

Awards and Professional Accomplishment

Carole Pateman was a Guggenheim Fellow 1993-94.

Since 1994 Dr. Pateman has been a Member of the International Advisory Board of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences.

In 2012 she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.

In 2013, she earned the Special Recognition Award by the UK Political Studies Association.

In April, 2015 she was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

The Australian Political Science Association (APSA) awards the Carole Pateman prize biennially for the best book published on the topic of gender and politics.

An Italian translation of The Sexual Contract appears in 2015 from Moretti e Vitali, Bergamo.

A Japanese translation of The Disorder of Women: Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory from Hosei University Press (Hosei Daigaku Shuppankyoku), translated by Ryusaku Yamada, was published in June 2014.

Translations of Participation and Democratic Theory into Spanish, The Disorder of Women into Korean, and The Sexual Contract into Polish are forthcoming.

Bibliography

Edited books

• Original printed in 1986.

Videos

• The Equivalent of the Right to Land, Life, and Liberty? Democracy and the Idea of a Basic Income (Link)