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

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

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

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