Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?

by Karen Thompson, Julie Andrzejewski

Book by Thompson, Karen, Andrzejewski, Julie

Genres: Disability, Queer, Nonfiction, History, LGBT

227 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1988

Reviews

[Bird]

An absolutely vital text for anyone thinking about disability, as well as theorists working on marriage equality. Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home? should be included alongside work on discrimination against gay couples during the AIDS epidemics, as well as in medical ethics settings, LGBT history, and more. An overlooked, yet critical accounting of homophobia in medical, family, and legal frameworks.

[Nora]

An absolutely classic text of disability rights and LGBTQ rights. Really moving story of a closeted lesbian couple and one of them became severely disabled. Her partner had no rights to visit her or inform her care, and the parents swooped in and cut the relationship off. Not just a landmark legal case but a really beautiful tale told by a woman who did not stop loving her partner despite tremendous obstacles.

[Vanessa (V.C.)]

This book is deeply upsetting, but a story that needed to be told. So heartbreaking. But this wasn't that well written - very confusing, so much so that even the timeline at the end of the book that summarizes the whole thing was hard to follow. Nonetheless and still, a mandatory and landmark text on disability rights and injustice. If only it was required reading in schools/universities.

[Greta Freed]

Interesting because it was so closely tied to St. Cloud but all the appeals were confusing to follow