Carole Pateman (born 11 December 1940) is a world-renowned feminist and political

theorist. She is known as a critic of liberal democracy and has been a member of the British
Academy since 2007.
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 (199194).
In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the British Academy.[2] She served as President of the
American Political Science Association in 201011. 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.