Carole Pateman

Carole Pateman is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Political Science with an appointment in the Women's Studies Department and membership in the Executive Committee of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. Her work focuses on political theory, with a special emphasis on feminism, race, and ethnicity. She served as President of the American Political Science Association in 2010-'11, and was the first woman to serve as President (1991-94) of the International Political Science Association. In 2007 she was elected to the British Academy. Among her publications are Participation and Democratic Theory (1970), The Problem of Political Obligation (2nd edition 1985) and The Sexual Contract (1988) which received the Benjamin Lippincott Award from the APSA in 2005. Her most recent book is Contract and Domination (2007, with Charles Mills). Pateman has received honorary doctorates from the Australian National University (1998), the National University of Ireland (2005), and Helsinki University (2006). In 2010 she was awarded the title of Academician of the Council of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK.