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The roots of desire : the myth, meaning, and sexual power of red hair / Marion Roach.

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  • ISBN: 1582343446
  • ISBN: 9781582343440
  • Physical Description: viii, 244 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st. U.S. edition
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-230) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: A Lurid Tale 1 -- Part 1 Sinners -- Chapter 1 Wild, Oversexed Heathens, Banshees, and Queens: Redheaded Women and How They Make Us Feel The Way We Do 9 -- Chapter 2 Old Poker and the Inhabitants of Pandemonium: It Is in His Kiss-and in Our Blood-to Fear the Red-Haired Man 37 -- Chapter 3 Blood That Scares the Hell into Us: Superstition, Taboo, and the Blood That Divides Us 55 -- Part 2 Science -- Digestif: Recipe for an Identity 91 -- Chapter 4 A Monk, Two Very Different Victorians, and the Knockout Mouse: How We Were Delivered the Genetics of Hair Color 96 -- Digestif: Recipe for a Heritage 120 -- Chapter 5 Itch of Genetics/The Genetics of Itch: Science Has Done Little to Extinguish the Fire of the Tale 125 -- Digestif: Recipe for One Redhead 153 -- Part 3 Sex -- Chapter 6 Palette of the Succubus: On Satan the Color Red Is One Thing; on Women, It Is Altogether Another 157 -- Chapter 7 You May Be Many Things, Young Lady, but You Are No Redhead: The Tangle of Sex and Science Are but Two Strands of the Braid 182 -- A Recipe 231.
Subject:
Redheads.
Hair > Social aspects.
Hair > Erotic aspects.
Hair.

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