Red
Subtitle: a history of the redhead
By: Jacky Colliss Harvey
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781579129965
Subjects: Hair; Social aspects; History; Redheads; Redheads in art
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Way, way back, many centuries ago; title: Black and white and red all over; title: Different for girls; title: The excrement of the head; title: Sinners and stunners; title: Rapunzel, Rapunzel; title: Freaks of fashion; title: Redhead days.