Taxing Choices

The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law

AvRebecca Johnson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Winner, 2003-2004 Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English-Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social SciencesIn 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-08-31
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Law and Society
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774809566
Utmärkelser:Winner of Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science 2004 (Canada)

Utforska kategorier

Skatter och avgifter: Juridik inom Juridik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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Rebecca Johnson is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria.

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"This book makes a huge contribution to the field of socio-legal studies. The scholarship is first rate, and the author has applied complex theories in a manner that is extremely accessible. It is a "great read," it tells a fascinating story, and should interest anyone attentive to issues of fairness, justice, and how these issues play out in the courts." - Claire Young, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, and author of Women, Tax and Social Programs

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Intersection of Power and WoundPart 1: Prelude1 Theoretical Foundations2 Childcare Politics in Canada3 Legal Manoeuvring and the Development of Litigation StrategiesPart 2: "The Play's the Thing"4 Strategy and Practice: The Play's the Thing PartPart 3: Sorting Out the Aftermath5 The Limits of Judicial Power: The Court as Constrained6 Power, Constraint, and the Rhetoric of Choice7 Multiple Solitudes: Intersectionality in the Nonexpert Public Response8 Class and Gender on the Terrain of Need: Intersectionality in Expert Public Response9 Lessons to Be Learned and a Case to Be RemadeAppendicesA Selected Statutory ProvisionsB Selections from the Dissent in Symes v. CanadaNotesBibliographyIndex