This reflection is based on a conversation with Professor Carole Pateman on 4th December 2017 as we prepared for a conference at Cardiff University to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of her seminal work, The Sexual Contract (1988). As socio-legal scholars, The Sexual Contract has been formative in, and transformative of, our understandings of law and gender. We explore Professor Pateman’s academic journey and consider how she came to write a ground-breaking book that has made major impacts on socio-legal and feminist legal studies. The paper is structured around the main themes arising in conversation with Pateman, with each section centred on her own account taken from our conversation in late 2017.

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30 年后的性契约：与 Carole Pateman 的对话

这一反思基于 2017 年 12 月 4 日与 Carole Pateman 教授的对话，当时我们准备在卡迪夫大学举行会议，庆祝她的开创性作品《性契约》（1988 年）发表 30 周年。作为社会法律学者，《性契约》已经形成并改变了我们对法律和性别的理解。我们探索了 Pateman 教授的学术历程，并思考她是如何写出一本对社会法律和女权主义法律研究产生重大影响的开创性著作的。这篇论文围绕与 Pateman 对话中出现的主要主题展开，每个部分都以她自己在 2017 年底我们的对话中的叙述为中心。