Carole Pateman

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Carole Pateman (born December 11, 1940 in Sussex ) is a British- born political scientist . She is Emerita from the University of California, Los Angeles . Her main focus in teaching, research and publications is political theory , especially democracy theory , and feminist theories.

Life

Carole Pateman grew up in a working-class family in Sussex, England. She received a scholarship to Ruskin College and was the first woman to study there. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Oxford University .

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Carole Pateman has held numerous teaching and research assignments in Australia, Europe and North America. In 1990 she became Professor of Political Science at the University of California (UCLA), where she continues to teach after her retirement. She was the first woman to be President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and President of the Australasian Political Science Association from 1991 to 1994 . In 1996 she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 2010-11 she was President of the American Political Science Association . She teaches as an honorary professor at the School of European Studies at Cardiff University . She received honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki and the National University of Ireland .

Her most important writings include Participation and Democratic Theory (1970) and The Problem of Political Obligation (1979). In Participation and Democratic Theory , she develops a participatory conception of democracy , inspired by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau , John Stuart Mill and GDH Coles . Her work The Sexual Contract (1988, The Gender Contract ) has had a lasting influence on feminist theory . It has been translated into eight languages ​​and has been awarded prizes. In the book, classic ideas from the history of ideas and the classic contract theories are re-evaluated from a feminist point of view. Social and political institutions are seen as patriarchal instruments of oppression directed against women.

In 2012 Carole Pateman was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize from Uppsala University for outstanding achievements in the field of political science

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Participation and Democratic Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1970, ISBN 0-521-07856-3 .
  • The Problem of Political Obligation. A Critical Analysis of Liberal Theory. Wiley, Chichester et al. 1979, ISBN 0-471-99699-8 .
  • The Sexual Contract. Polity Press, Cambridge et al. 1988, ISBN 0-7456-0431-5 .
  • The Disorder of Women. Democracy, Feminism and Political Theory. Polity Press, Cambridge 1989, ISBN 0-7456-0789-6 .
  • Contract and Domination. (with Charles W. Mills), Polity Press, Cambridge et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7456-4003-7 .

Editing

  • Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory. (with Mary Lyndon Shanley), Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park PA 1991, ISBN 0-271-00736-2 .
  • Justice and Democracy. Essays for Brian Barry. (with Keith Dowding and Robert E. Goodin), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2004, ISBN 0-521-83695-6 .
  • Basic Income Worldwide. Horizons of Reform. (with Matthew N. Murray), Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-230-28542-2 .

Awards

  • 1989 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association for The Sexual Contract .
  • 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award, UK Political Studies Association.
  • 2005 Benjamin Lippincott Award, American Political Science Association for The Sexual Contract .
  • 2012 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science from Uppsala University .

literature

  • Terrell Carver, Samuel A. Chambers (Eds.): Carole Pateman. Democracy, Feminism Welfare. Routledge, London et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-78112-1 .
  • Steffen Kailitz (Ed.): Key works of political science. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14005-6 , p. 352 f.
  • Daniel I. O'Neill, Mary Lyndon Shanley, Iris Marion Young (Eds.): The Illusion of Consent. Engaging with Carole Pateman. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park PA 2008, ISBN 978-0-271-03591-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel I. O'Neill, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Iris Marion Young: Illusion of Consent - Engaging with Carole Pateman , Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008, 2
  2. ↑ Samuel Salzborn (Ed.): Classics of the Social Sciences - 100 Key Works in Portrait , Springer VS Fachmedien, Wiesbaden, 2014, pp. 325 to 328
  3. ↑ Carole Pateman winner of the Johan Skytte Prize 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / skytteprize.statsvet.uu.se
  4. ^ Nancy Fraser : Beyond the Master / Subject Model: Reflections on Carole Pateman's Sexual Contract . In: Social Text, No. 37, A Special Section Edited by Anne McClintock Explores the Sex Trade (Winter, 1993), pp. 173-181
personal data
SURNAME Pateman, Carole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Sussex