Carole Pateman

Biography

Pateman was born in Maresfield, Sussex, England. Educated at Lewes County Grammar School for Girls, she left at age 16. She entered Ruskin College, Oxford in 1963 studying economics, politics, history and sociology, achieving a distinction. She won a place at Lady Margaret Hall to read PPE, staying on to earn a DPhil.

In 1972, she became lecturer in political theory at the University of Sydney. 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 a Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Professor Pateman served as (the first woman) President of the International Political Science Association (1991–1994). In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the British Academy. She served as president of the American Political Science Association from 2010–2011. 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 Australian National University, the National University of Ireland, and Helsinki University.

Awards

Pateman was a Guggenheim Fellow 1993–1994.

Since 1994 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.

Bibliography

Books

• Pateman, Carole (1988). The Sexual Contract. Cambridge: Polity in association with Blackwell.

Edited books

• Original printed in 1986.

Chapters in books

Journal articles

Videos

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

References

References

1. John Lechte. (1994). "Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity". Routledge.
2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20021107121930/http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/pateman/ Carole Pateman faculty page at UCLA]
3. (29 September 2012). "Carole Pateman winner of the Johan Skytte Prize 2012". Uppsala universitet, MedfarmDoIT.
4. [https://www.britac.ac.uk/news-of-fellows/fellows-elected-learned-society-wales Fellows elected to the Learned Society of Wales]. British Academy. Published 24 April 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
5. [https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/carole-pateman/ Professor Carole Pateman]. Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
6. "Carole Pateman Prize | Australian Political Studies Association".