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

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Author / Creator:Johnson, Rebecca, 1963-
Imprint:Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2002.
Description:xv, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Law and society series
Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4735030
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ISBN:0774809574 (pbk.)
0774809566 (bound)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-229) and index.
Table of 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
  • Appendices
  • A. Selected Statutory Provisions
  • B. Selections from the Dissent in Symes v. Canada
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index