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The mere reference to red wild hair conjures vibrant images and provokes strong reactions. Popular stereotypes of redheaded women range from the fiery-tempered vixen and the penitent prostitute - Mary Magdalene is often portrayed in artwork as a redhead - to the fun-loving scatterbrain Lucille Ball. Red-haired men, in the meantime, are constantly associated with either the savage barbarian or the redheaded clown. But why? Red: A History of the Redhead is the first audiobook to chronicle red wild hair and redheadedness from prehistory to present day. As both intrepid ethnic detective and persuasive storyteller, Jacky Colliss Harvey weaves a remarkable history you start with the moment the redheaded gene made its way to avoid it of Africa with the early real human diaspora. She goes on to trace red wild hair in the early world; the intolerance manifested against it as an indication of Jewishness across middle ages Europe; red wild hair as the level of fashion in Renaissance Great britain; the redheaded "stunner" in Pre-Raphaelite artwork and the paintings of the Impressionists; and into the modern age, from its symbolism and adoration in popular culture to "gingerism", perhaps the last unacknowledged from of discrimination. More than an audiobook for redheads, Red is both an exploration of red wild hair as "other" and a party of every facet of its unique sociable and scientific traditions at a time when it hasn't before been so frequently in the news or played out such a visible role inside our visual culture.
