Taxing Choices The Intersection of Class Gender Parenthood and the Law 1st Edition by Rebecca Johnson 9780774850346 0774850345

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ISBN 10: 0774850345

ISBN 13: 9780774850346

Author: Rebecca Johnson

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.

Table of contents:

Part 1 Prelude
Chapter 1: Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 2: Childcare Politics in Canada
Chapter 3: Legal Manoeuvring and the Development of Litigation Strategies

Part 2 The Play’s the Thing
Chapter 4: Strategy and Practice: The Play’s the Thing

Part 3 Sorting Out the Aftermath
Chapter 5: The Limits of Judicial Power: The Court as Constrained
Chapter 6: Power, Constraint, and the Rhetoric of Choice
Chapter 7: Multiple Solitudes: Intersectionality in the Nonexpert Public Response
Chapter 8: Class and Gender on the Terrain of Need: Intersectionality in Expert Public Response
Chapter 9: Lessons to Be Learned and a Case to Be Remade

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