Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Intersection of Power and Wound ix
5. Prelude
6. Theoretical Foundations 3
7. Childcare Politics in Canada 16
8. Legal Manoeuvring and the Development of Litigation Strategies 33
9. “The Play’s the Thing”
10. Strategy and Practice: The Play’s the Thing 57
11. Sorting Out the Aftermath
12. The Limits of Judicial Power: The Court as Constrained 109
13. Power, Constraint, and the Rhetoric of Choice 125
14. Multiple Solitudes: Intersectionality in the Nonexpert Public Response 142
15. Class and Gender on the Terrain of Need: Intersectionality in Expert Public Response 159
16. Lessons to Be Learned and a Case to Be Remade 174
17. Selected Statutory Provisions 197
18. Selections from the Dissent in Symes v. Canada^† 201
19. Notes 205
20. Bibliography 223
21. Index 231