At thirty-five, Mary Frazier Armstrong, called “Frazier” by friends and enemies alike, is a sophisticated woman with a thriving art gallery, a healthy bank balance, and an enviable social position.  In fact, she has everything to live for, but she’s lying in a hospital bed with a morphine drip in her arm and a life expectancy measured in hours.  ”Don’t die a stranger,” her assistant says on her last hospital visit.  ”Tell the people you love who you are.”  And so, as her last act on earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself: she’s gay.
The letters are sent.  Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn’t going to die after all.
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Venus Envy
Rita Mae Brown’s “Rubyfruit Jungle”: A Study Guide from Gale’s “Novels for Students” (Volume 09, Chapter 14)
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Abandoning the role model – Gender and sexuality in Rita Mae Brown’s “Rubyfruit Jungle”
Scholarly Paper aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik – Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Universität Siegen, Veranstaltung: Protest and Liberation: American Literature of the 60s and 70s, 12 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Abstract: From its beginnings, American society was a system based on certain values, e.g. Christianity. These values are affected by events like war, waves of immigration and the fluctuations of economy and therefore change constantly. In those changing times, family was meant to be a fixed value in society but in the 20th century they started to disintegrate, especially referring to the role model of women. This paper discusses the presentation of gender and sexuality in Rita Mae Brown’s novel “Rubyfruit Jungle”, including female role models and homosexuality in the context of the ever present conventions in 1960s America.
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Rubyfruit Jungle
Rubyfruit Jungle is the first milestone novel in the extraordinary career of one of this country’s most distinctive writers. Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America â?? and living happily ever after.
Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy the tub and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade.
As she grows to realize she’s different, Molly decides not to apologize for that. In no time she mesmerizes the head cheerleader of Ft. Lauderdale High and captivates a gorgeous bourbon-guzzling heiress.
But the world is not tolerant. Booted out of college for moral turpitude, an unrepentant, penniless Molly takes New York by storm, sending not a few female hearts aflutter with her startling beauty, crackling wit and fierce determination to become the greatest filmmaker that ever lived.
Critically acclaimed when first published, Rubyfruit Jungle has only grown in reputation as it has reached new generations of readers who respond to its feisty and inspiring heroine.
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