Taxing choices : the intersection of class, gender, parenthood, and the law / Rebecca Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Rebecca, 1963-

Series:

Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)

Law and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Women.

Sex discrimination against women--Canada.

Sex discrimination against women.

Child care--Government policy--Canada.

Child care.

Feminist jurisprudence--Canada.

Feminist jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This fascinating analysis of the controversial Symes case of the 1990s examines how class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare, and 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.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Intersection of Power and Wound""; ""Part 1 Prelude""; ""1 Theoretical Foundations""; ""2 Childcare Politics in Canada""; ""3 Legal Manoeuvring and the Development of Litigation Strategies""; ""Part 2 "The Play's the Thing"; ""4 Strategy and Practice: The Play's the Thing""; ""Part 3 Sorting Out the Aftermath""; ""5 The Limits of Judicial Power: The Court as Constrained""; ""6 Power, Constraint, and the Rhetoric of Choice""; ""7 Multiple Solitudes: Intersectionality in the Nonexpert Public Response"" 8 Class and Gender on the Terrain of Need: Intersectionality in Expert Public Response9 Lessons to Be Learned and a Case to Be RemadeAppendix A Selected Statutory Provisions Appendix B Selections from the Dissent in Symes v. Canada Notes Bibliography Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-33052-0

9786613330529

0-7748-5034-5

OCLC:

80218821