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TAXING CHOICES
THE INTERSECTION OF CLASS, GENDER, PARENTHOOD, AND THE LAW |
| By: |
Rebecca Johnson |
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Paperback |
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£29.99 |
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£25.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0774809574 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774809573 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2003 |
| Series: |
Law and Society |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
This fascinating analysis of the controversial Symes case of the 1990s examines how class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare. |
| Synopsis: |
Winner, 2003-2004 Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English-LanguageBook in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for Humanities andSocial SciencesIn the early 1990s, lawyer Beth Symes brought an equality challengeagainst the Canadian Income Tax Act, arguing that her childcare costswere a business expense. The case ignited public controversy. Was Symesdisadvantaged on the basis of gender, or unfairly privileged on thebasis of class?This book seeks answers to those questions through close attentionto the Symes case, where class and gender interests clashed over thetax treatment of childcare. It looks at the history of legislative andlitigative struggles, the dynamics of courtroom discourse, and theinfluence of broad social debates about children and the public/privatedivide. It reveals how frequently the rhetoric of choice,responsibility, and selfishness is invoked in response to women'sattempts to place issues of childcare on the public agenda.Taxing Choices will interest all those who seek to use the law as atool of social justice but are troubled by the perils posed bycompeting interests and conflicts involving race, class, gender, andability. |
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Canada |
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University of British Columbia Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities |
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