Taxing Choices : The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law / Rebecca Johnson.
2007
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Title
Taxing Choices : The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law / Rebecca Johnson.
Imprint
Vancouver ; Toronto : University of British Columbia Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2002
Description
1 online resource (256 p.)
Series
Law and Society.
Formatted Contents Note
Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Intersection of Power and Wound
Prelude
Theoretical Foundations
Childcare Politics in Canada
Legal Manoeuvring and the Development of Litigation Strategies
"The Play's the Thing"
Strategy and Practice: The Play's the Thing
Sorting Out the Aftermath
The Limits of Judicial Power: The Court as Constrained
Power, Constraint, and the Rhetoric of Choice
Multiple Solitudes: Intersectionality in the Nonexpert Public Response
Class and Gender on the Terrain of Need: Intersectionality in Expert Public Response
Lessons to Be Learned and a Case to Be Remade
Selected Statutory Provisions
Selections from the Dissent in Symes v. Canada†
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Intersection of Power and Wound
Prelude
Theoretical Foundations
Childcare Politics in Canada
Legal Manoeuvring and the Development of Litigation Strategies
"The Play's the Thing"
Strategy and Practice: The Play's the Thing
Sorting Out the Aftermath
The Limits of Judicial Power: The Court as Constrained
Power, Constraint, and the Rhetoric of Choice
Multiple Solitudes: Intersectionality in the Nonexpert Public Response
Class and Gender on the Terrain of Need: Intersectionality in Expert Public Response
Lessons to Be Learned and a Case to Be Remade
Selected Statutory Provisions
Selections from the Dissent in Symes v. Canada†
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Summary
Winner, 2003-2004 Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English-Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences In the early 1990s, lawyer Beth Symes brought an equality challenge against the Canadian Income Tax Act, arguing that her childcare costs were a business expense. The case ignited public controversy. Was Symes disadvantaged on the basis of gender, or unfairly privileged on the basis of class? This book seeks answers to those questions through close attention to the Symes case, where class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare. It looks at the history of legislative and litigative struggles, the dynamics of courtroom discourse, and the influence of broad social debates about children and the public/private divide. It reveals how frequently the rhetoric of choice, responsibility, and selfishness is invoked in response to women's attempts to place issues of childcare on the public agenda. Taxing Choices will interest all those who seek to use the law as a tool of social justice but are troubled by the perils posed by competing interests and conflicts involving race, class, gender, and ability.
Language Note
In English.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Language
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ISBN
9780774850346
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