A humorous guide to everything redhead, from pop culture to history to fashion. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art. She goes on to explore red hair in the ancient world the prejudice manifested against red hair across medieval Europe red hair during the Renaissance as both an indicator of Jewishness during the Inquisition and the height of fashion in Protestant England, under the reign of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I the modern age of art and literature, and the first positive symbols of red hair in children's characters modern medicine and science and 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. The Big Redhead Book: Inside the Secret Society of Red Hair is an inside. Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. Red: A Natural History of the Redhead (Hardback) 16.99 Walking Pepyss London (Hardback) 12.99 The Animals Companion: People and their Pets, a 26,000.

With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, author Jacky Colliss Harvey (herself a redhead) begins her exploration of red hair in prehistory and traces the redhead gene as it made its way out of Africa with the early human diaspora to its emergence under Northern skies.

'Elizabeth I paraded her hair not only as a sign of the Tudor rose and St George, but of her royal paternity, presenting her head, in all its accouterments, as if on a platter, and so transforming a death-like punishment into an irrefutable riposte to her enemies should the thought arise regarding her right to rule.Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. And if you want to place the point at which attitudes toward red hair in men and women begin to radically diverge, likewise.

Her theories are ambitious yet compelling: 'The redheaded Magdalene, as Western art and literature has created her, …the single most important reason why Western attitudes toward redheaded men and redheaded women diverge so thoroughly,' she writes elsewhere: ' you want to look for reasons for the continuing and increasing antipathy towards redheads in medieval Europe, in particular redheaded men, look no further than its anti-Semitism. She writes eloquently, sometimes humorously, often rousingly, her statements empowered by an authoritative command of her material.

Red a natural history of the redhead