Editing Rubyfruit Jungle (section)

{{Short description|1973 debut novel by Rita Mae Brown}}
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| name          = Rubyfruit Jungle
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| image         = Rubyfruit Jungle (Rita Mae Brown novel) cover.jpg
| caption = First edition cover
| author        = [[Rita Mae Brown]]
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| country       = United States
| language      = English
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| genre         = Novel
| publisher     = VT: Daughters
| release_date  = late 1973<ref name="Copyright registration date">{{cite journal |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Part 1: Books and Pamphlets Jul-Dec 1973: Vol 27 No 2 Sec 1 Current and Renewal Registrations |journal=Catalog of Copyright Entries |date=1975 |volume=27 |issue=2 |page=3141 |url=https://archive.org/details/catalogofcop197332711libr/page/3141/mode/1up?q=%22Rubyfruit+Jungle%22 |access-date=20 December 2024}}</ref>
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| media_type    = Print (hardback & paperback)
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'''''Rubyfruit Jungle''''' is the [[first novel]] by [[Rita Mae Brown]].  Published in 1973, it was remarkable in its day for its explicit portrayal of [[lesbianism]]. The novel is a [[bildungsroman|coming-of-age]] [[autobiography|autobiographical]] account of Brown's youth and emergence as a lesbian author. The term "rubyfruit jungle" is a term used in the novel for the female [[sex organ|genitals]].