Selected publications by Sylvia Bashevkin

Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada’s Unfinished Democracy (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Editor, Opening Doors Wider: Women’s Political Engagement in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009).

“Party Talk: Assessing the Feminist Rhetoric of Women Leadership Candidates in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 42:2 (June 2009).

“‘Stage’ versus ‘Actor’ Barriers to Women’s Federal Party Leadership,” in Bashevkin (ed.), Opening Doors Wider: Women’s Political Engagement in Canada, 2009, 108-26.

Tales of Two Cities: Women and Municipal Restructuring in London and Toronto (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006).

“Training a Spotlight on Urban Citizenship: The Case of Women in London and Toronto,” in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29:1 (March 2005), 9-25.

“Talk, Money and Institutional Design: Comparing Urban Policy Prospects in Toronto versus London,” Canadian Journal of Urban Research 13:2 (Winter 2004), 197-219.

Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work and Social Policy Reform (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002).

Editor, Women's Work is Never Done: Comparative Studies in Care-Giving, Employment and Social Policy Reform (New York: Routledge, 2002).

"From Tough Times to Better Times: Feminism, Public Policy and New Labour Politics in Britain," International Political Science Review 21:4 (October 2000), 407-24.

"In the Shadow of Free Trade: Nationalism, Feminism and Identity Politics in Contemporary English Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 35:2 (Summer 2000), 109-27.

"Rethinking Retrenchment: North American Social Policy During the Early Clinton and Chrétien Years," Canadian Journal of Political Science 33:1 (March 2000), 7-36.

Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times (Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998).

"Losing Common Ground: Feminists, Conservatives and Public Policy during the Mulroney Years," Canadian Journal of Political Science 29:2 (June 1996), 211-42.

"Tough Times in Review: The British Women's Movement During the Thatcher Years," Comparative Political Studies 28:4 (January 1996), 525-52.

"Facing a Renewed Right: American Feminism and the Reagan/Bush Challenge," Canadian Journal of Political Science 27:4 (December 1994), 669-98.

"Confronting Neo-Conservatism: Anglo-American Women's Movements Under Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney," International Political Science Review 15:3 (July 1994), 275-96.

"Building a Political Voice: Women's Participation and Policy Influence in Canada," in Barbara J. Nelson and Najma Chowdhury (eds.), Women and Politics Worldwide (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), 142-60. Book won the 1995 Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on women and politics.

Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (2nd edition; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993).

"Women's Participation in Political Parties," in Kathy Megyery (ed.), Women in Canadian Politics: Towards Equity in Representation, Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing research volume 6 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1991), 61-79.

True Patriot Love: The Politics of Canadian Nationalism (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991).

"Solitudes in Collision? Pan-Canadian and Quebec Nationalist Attitudes in the late 1970s," Comparative Political Studies 23:1 (April 1990), 3-24.

"Free Trade and Canadian Feminism: The Case of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women," Canadian Public Policy 15:4 (December 1989), 363-75.

"Does Public Opinion Matter? The Adoption of Federal Royal Commission and Task Force Recommendations on the National Question," Canadian Public Administration 31:3 (Fall 1988), 390-407.

Toeing the Lines: Women and Party Politics in English Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985).

Editor, Canadian Political Behaviour: Introductory Readings (Toronto: Methuen, 1985).

Editor, Women and Politics in Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 1985).

"Political Participation, Ambition and Feminism: Women in the Ontario Party Elites," American Review of Canadian Studies 15:4 (Winter 1985), 405-19.

"Changing Patterns of Politicization and Partisanship Among Women in France," British Journal of Political Science 15:1 (January 1985), 75-96.

"Social Background and Political Experience: Gender Differences among Ontario Provincial Party Elites," Atlantis 9:1 (Fall 1983), 1-12.

"Social Change and Political Partisanship: The Development of Women's Attitudes in Quebec," Comparative Political Studies 16:2 (July 1983), 147-72.

"Women's Participation in the Ontario Political Parties, 1971-1981," Journal of Canadian Studies 17:2 (Summer 1982), 44-54.