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

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 issu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, Rebecca, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, ©2002.
Series:Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Subjects:
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Canada.
Sex discrimination against women > Canada.
Child care > Government policy > Canada.
Feminist jurisprudence > Canada.
Femmes > Droit > Canada.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes > Canada.
Garde des enfants > Politique gouvernementale > Canada.
Féminisme et droit > Canada.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Child care > Government policy
Feminist jurisprudence
Sex discrimination against women
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Canada
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 Playâ€?s the Thingâ€?""; ""4 Strategy and Practice: The Playâ€?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 Remade
  • Appendix A Selected Statutory Provisions
  • Appendix B Selections from the Dissent in
  • Symes v. Canada
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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