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 feminist and political theorist. She is known as a critic of liberal democracy and has been a member of the British Academy since 2007.[1]

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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[2] 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

Pateman was a Guggenheim Fellow 1993-94.

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.[3]

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.[4]

Bibliography

Books

Edited books

Chapters in books

Journal articles

Videos

References

  1. 1 2 John Lechte (1994). Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity. Routledge. ISBN 0415074088.
  2. 1 2 Carole Pateman faculty page at UCLA
  3. "Carole Pateman winner of the Johan Skytte Prize 2012". Uppsala universitet, MedfarmDoIT. 29 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  4. http://www.auspsa.org.au/page/carole-pateman-prize

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