Sylvia Bashevkin

Sylvia Beth Bashevkin, FRSC (born 1954) is Canadian academic and writer known for her research in the field of women and politics.

She is a professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science. From 2005 to 2011, she was Principal of University College, Toronto. She is a senior fellow of Massey College, Toronto.

In 2001, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Selected Bibliography

• Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada’s Unfinished Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Tales of Two Cities: Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto (University of British Columbia Press, 2006)
• Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work and Social Policy Reform (University of Toronto Press and University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002)
• Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times (University of Chicago Press and University of Toronto Press, 1998)
• Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1993)
• True Patriot Love: The Politics of Canadian Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 1991)
• Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1985)