Jacky Colliss Harvey
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
230 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Stereotypes of redheaded women range from the fun loving 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,...