Red : a history of the redhead / Jacky Colliss Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, Jacky Colliss, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Redheads.

Redheads--History.

Redheads in art.

Hair--Social aspects.

Hair.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

230 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map ; 21 cm

regular print

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2015.

Summary:

Stereotypes of redheaded women range from the funloving scatterbrain to the fiery-tempered vixen or the penitent prostitute. Red-haired men are often associated with either the savage barbarian or the redheaded clown. But why is this so? Harvey begins her quest in prehistory and traces the redhead gene as it made its way out of Africa with the early human diaspora, only to emerge under Northern skies. She goes on to the modern age of art, and literature, and the first positive symbols of red hair in children's characters; the genetic and chemical decoding of red hair; and finally, red hair in contemporary culture, from advertising and exploitation to "gingerism" and the new movement against bullying.

Contents:

Introduction

Way, way back, many centuries ago

Black and white and red all over

Different for girls

The excrement of the head

Sinners and stunners

Rapunzel, Rapunzel

Freaks of fashion

Redhead days.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index.

ISBN:

9781579129965

157912996X

OCLC:

885225656