| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
230 pages, [24] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, mapS ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Traces the history, mythology, and contemporary social thought about red hair and redheads, highlighting genetics, social prejudices, and the hair color's role in advertising. |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-220) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Redheads.
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Redheads -- History.
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Redheads in art.
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Hair -- Social aspects.
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Hair -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00950381
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Redheads. (OCoLC)fst01092266
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Redheads in art. (OCoLC)fst01904447
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781579129965 (hardcover) |
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157912996X (hardcover) |
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