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

Career

Bashevkin is a professor in the Department of Political Science in the

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. From 2005 to 2011, she was Principal of

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. She is a senior fellow of

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. In 2001, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2005, Bashevkin was named Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award by the Women's Executive Network. Later in 2014, she was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies. That same year, she was also the recipient of the Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award from the

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. In 2017, Bashevkin published an article titled "Listening to women leaders: Feminist narratives among US foreign policy" which was subsequently short listed for the 2018 Jill Vickers Prize by the

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. The following year, Bashevkin was awarded the ISA Bertha Lutz Prize by the

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Selected bibliography

* ''Women As Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security and Gender Politics in Superpower America'' (

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, 2018) * ''Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada's Unfinished Democracy'' (

, 2009) * ''Tales of Two Cities: Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto'' (

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, 2006) * ''Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work and Social Policy Reform'' (

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and

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, 2002) * ''Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times'' (

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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)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bashevkin, Sylvia Living people 1954 births Place of birth missing (living people) Canadian political scientists Women political scientists 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian women non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women academics Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada University of Toronto faculty York University alumni University of Michigan alumni Hampshire College alumni Presidents of the Canadian Political Science Association