By Jacky Colliss Harvey
The brilliantly advised, beautiful historical past of pink hair in the course of the a while and throughout a number of disciplines, together with technological know-how, faith, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art
The mere point out of crimson hair calls to brain shiny images. Stereotypes of redheaded girls diversity from the funloving scatterbrain, like Lucille Ball, to the fiery-tempered vixen or the penitent prostitute (Mary Magdalene, for instance, is sort of constantly depicted as a redhead). Red-haired males are usually linked to both the savage barbarian or the redheaded clown. yet why is that this so?
Red: A average background of the Redhead is the 1st publication to discover the historical past of pink hair and red-headedness in the course of the global. With an obsessive fascination that's as contagious because it is compelling, writer Jacky Colliss Harvey starts her quest in prehistory and strains the redhead gene because it made its manner out of Africa with the early human diaspora, merely to emerge lower than Northern skies. She is going directly to discover pink hair within the historic global (from the Tarim mummies in China to the Islamic country of the Khazars); the unfairness manifested opposed to crimson hair throughout medieval Europe; crimson hair through the Renaissance as either a hallmark of Jewishness throughout the Inquisition and the peak of favor in Protestant England, the place it used to be made recognized via the Henry VIII and Elizabeth I; the trendy age of artwork, and literature, and the 1st optimistic symbols of crimson hair in children's characters; sleek drugs and technological know-how and the genetic and chemical interpreting of pink hair; and at last, pink hair in modern tradition, from ads and exploitation to "gingerism" and the hot circulate opposed to bullying.
More than a publication for redheads, purple is the exploration of evolution and gene mutation, in addition to a compelling social and cultural examine of the way prejudice and misconceptions of "other" evolve throughout centuries and continents and are passed down via generations and from one tradition to a different.
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