1. Objectifs

Intentions :
Dans un des chapitres de son ouvrage, l’auteure aborde les commentaires des lecteurs d’un quotidien anglophone montréalais suite au jugement de la Cour suprême du Canada dans l’affaire Symes c. Canada, dans laquelle Élizabeth Symes défendait son droit de déduire, dans sa déclaration d’impôts, les frais de garde versés à une gardienne.

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
L’auteure utilise la section opinion des lecteurs du quotidien montréalais The Gazette.

Type de traitement des données :
Réflexion critique

3. Résumé

«In the above exploration of the public comments about the Symes case, it is clear that difficult social questions are at the heart of what remains a heated public debate. Depending on the frame through which one understands any given combination of power and disadvantage, these social questions produce different understanding and concerns. Depending on the operational frame of analysis, some things are drawn into the spotlight and other things fade into the background. The responses also suggest that even the nonexpert public had an often nuanced understanding of the complexities raised by the case. Issues of class and gender do emerge in the responses but what we see is a public that does not necessarily conceptualize the case as a conflict between class and gender interests. While questions of class and gender do play out within each frame, they seem to play out in terms of assumptions or silences with respect to whether class-gender is not central to more pressing questions of sameness and difference, choice and responsibility, children and their needs, and the structure of public and private life.» (p. 156-157)