Carole Pateman (born 11 December 1940) is a

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and political theorist. She is known as a critic of

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and has been a member of the

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since 2007.

Biography

Pateman was born in

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, England. Educated at Lewes County

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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 Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more form ...

to read PPE, staying on to earn a DPhil. In 1972, she became lecturer in political theory at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

. Since 1990, Professor Pateman has taught in the Department of Political Science at the

University of California at Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

(UCLA), where she is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus.Carole Pateman faculty page at UCLA
/ref> 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

. She served as president of the

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in 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 Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

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 ), location=Uppsala, Sweden, date= The Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science ( sv, Skytteanska priset) was established in 1995 by the Johan Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) is a public ...

. 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 ''The Sexual Contract'' is a 1988 non-fiction book by British feminist and political theorist Carole Pateman which was published through Polity Press. This book is a seminal work which discusses how contract theory continues to affirm the patria ...

''. Cambridge: Polity in association with Blackwell. * * *

Edited books

* * * * * ''Original printed in 1986.''

Chapters in books

Journal articles

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Videos

* ''The Equivalent of the Right to Land, Life, and Liberty? Democracy and the Idea of a

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References

External links

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Carole Pateman Papers
- Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University {{DEFAULTSORT:Pateman, Carole 1940 births British feminists British political philosophers Living people Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Fellows of the British Academy British social commentators International Political Science Association scholars Universal basic income in the United Kingdom