Additional Resources for Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Rubyfruit Jungle For Further Study

Carol Mane Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Twayne, 1993

A biographical and critical study The author also discusses the parallels between the lives of Brown's characters and her own expenences

Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney, Out for Good1 The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America, Simon & Schuster, 1999, 716 p.

An exhaustive account of the struggle for equal rights for homosexuals in the twentieth century.

Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975, University of Minnesota Press, 1989, 416 P-

The first full-length study of radical feminism from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.

Leslie Fishbem, "Ruby Fruit Jungle Lesbianism, Feminism, and Narcissism," in the International Journal of Women's Studies, Vol 7. No. 2, March-Apnl, 1984.

An in-depth examination of Brown's major themes.

Diane Silver, The New Civil War: The Lesbian and Gay Struggle for...
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