Taxing Choices : The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Law and Society Series .
- Law and Society Series .
Intro -- 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 Response -- 9 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.
This fascinating analysis of the controversial Symes case of the 1990s examines how class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada. Sex discrimination against women -- Canada. Child care -- Government policy -- Canada. Feminist jurisprudence -- Canada.