RED: A HISTORY OF THE REDHEAD
Book ID/图书代码： 01899014B74789
English Summary/英文概要： The brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages and across multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art
The mere mention of red hair calls to mind vivid pictures. Stereotypes of redheaded women range from the funloving scatterbrain, like Lucille Ball, to the fiery-tempered vixen or the penitent prostitute (Mary Magdalene, for example, is almost always depicted as a redhead). Red-haired men are often associated with either the savage barbarian or the redheaded clown. But why is this so?
Red: A History of the Redhead is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world. With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, author Jacky Colliss 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 explore red hair in the ancient world (from the Tarim mummies in China to the Islamic kingdom of the Khazars); 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, where it was made famous by the 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.
More than a book for redheads, Red is the exploration of evolution and gene mutation, as well as a compelling social and cultural study of how prejudice and misconceptions of "other" evolve across centuries and continents and are handed down through generations and from one culture to another.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 精彩传述、魅力无穷的红发历史贯穿人的一生，并且跨越多学科，包括科学、宗教学、政治学、女权主义和性学、文学和艺术等。
单单只提到红色的头发，生动形象的画面便会浮现脑海。红发女人给人的刻板印象既有耽于娱乐心浮气躁的人，像露西尔•鲍尔，也有脾气火爆的泼妇或忏悔的妓女（例如，抹大拉的马利亚总是被描述为一个红发女人）。红发男人常常要么和原始野蛮人，要么和红发小丑联系在一起。但是为什么会这样？
《红：红发人的历史》是世界上第一本探究红发的历史和红发现象的书。为一种极其痴迷的兴趣所“强迫”，作者杰克•克里斯•哈维从史前史开始追问，将红发的基因追溯至非洲早起离散的犹太人，红发只发生在北方。她继续追问古代世界的红发（从中国塔里木木乃伊到哈扎尔的伊斯兰王国）；中世纪欧洲对红发的偏见；文艺复兴时期红发既作为宗教裁判所认定犹太人的证据，也是英格兰清教徒的时尚潮流，这种时尚在亨利八世和伊丽莎白一世时闻名遐迩；现代艺术、文学以及在儿童角色中红发第一次呈现积极意义；红发的现代医学、科学、基因学和化学解码；最后，当代文化中的红发，从广告营销到“活力主义”（“gingerism”）和反抗欺凌的新运动。
《红：红发人的历史》不仅仅是一部给红发人看的书，而且是有关进化和基因突变的研究，同时也是一次强有力的社会学和文化学研究，对有关“他者”的偏见和误解是如何在数个世纪和数个大陆之间发生，以及如何一代代传承、从一种文化传递到另一种文化进行了剖析。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 杰克•克里斯•哈维是一位作家和编辑。她在剑桥大学学习英语，在考陶尔德艺术学院学习艺术史。过去20年，她从事博物馆出版，同时也是一个活跃在英国和其他国家的评论家，领域涉及艺术及其与流行文化之间的关联等。她的红发也让她从事一些副业，如当一个模特，做一个临时演员，既可以演《赎罪》中的社会女士，也可以演《漂亮朋友》中的巴黎妓女。她住在伦敦。
Jacky Colliss Harvey is a writer and editor. She studied English at Cambridge University and art history at the Courtauld Institute. She has worked in museum publishing for the past 20 years and is a commentator and reviewer who speaks in both the U.K. and abroad on the arts and their relation to popular culture. Her red hair has also found her an alternative career as a life model and a film extra playing everything from a society lady in Atonement to a Parisian whore in Bel-Ami. She lives in London.
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