The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation

by Leslie Cohen

Book Overview

Shortlisted for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lammy Award

Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village. One of the women touches the thigh of her partner as they gaze into each other's eyes. The two women are part of George Segal's iconic sculpture "Gay Liberation," but these powerful symbols were modeled on real people: Leslie Cohen and her partner (now wife) Beth Suskin.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978825110
• ISBN13: 9781978825116
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher