diff --git a/lib/premailer/adapter/hpricot.rb b/lib/premailer/adapter/hpricot.rb
index c1a24221..ea62c065 100644
--- a/lib/premailer/adapter/hpricot.rb
+++ b/lib/premailer/adapter/hpricot.rb
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ def write_unmergable_css_rules(doc, unmergable_rules) # :nodoc:
 
         unless styles.empty?
           style_tag = "\n<style type=\"text/css\">\n#{styles}</style>\n"
-          if head = doc.search('head')
+          if @options[:keep_unmergable_in_head] && head = doc.search('head')
             head.append(style_tag)
           elsif body = doc.search('body')
             body.append(style_tag)
diff --git a/lib/premailer/adapter/nokogiri.rb b/lib/premailer/adapter/nokogiri.rb
index 09bd5bad..94377955 100644
--- a/lib/premailer/adapter/nokogiri.rb
+++ b/lib/premailer/adapter/nokogiri.rb
@@ -143,15 +143,19 @@ def write_unmergable_css_rules(doc, unmergable_rules) # :nodoc:
         styles = unmergable_rules.to_s
 
         unless styles.empty?
-          style_tag = "<style type=\"text/css\">\n#{styles}</style>"
-          unless (body = doc.search('body')).empty?
-            if doc.at_css('body').children && !doc.at_css('body').children.empty?
-              doc.at_css('body').children.before(::Nokogiri::XML.fragment(style_tag))
+          style_tag = "\n<style type=\"text/css\">\n#{styles}</style>"
+          if @options[:keep_unmergable_in_head] && !doc.search('head').empty?
+            doc.at_css('head').add_child(::Nokogiri::XML.fragment(style_tag))
+          else
+            unless doc.search('body').empty?
+              if doc.at_css('body').children && !doc.at_css('body').children.empty?
+                doc.at_css('body').children.before(::Nokogiri::XML.fragment(style_tag))
+              else
+                doc.at_css('body').add_child(::Nokogiri::XML.fragment(style_tag))
+              end
             else
-              doc.at_css('body').add_child(::Nokogiri::XML.fragment(style_tag))
+              doc.inner_html = style_tag += doc.inner_html
             end
-          else
-            doc.inner_html = style_tag += doc.inner_html
           end
         end
         doc
diff --git a/lib/premailer/premailer.rb b/lib/premailer/premailer.rb
index 298ff1eb..3f07ff8b 100755
--- a/lib/premailer/premailer.rb
+++ b/lib/premailer/premailer.rb
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ module Warnings
   # @option options [Boolean] :verbose Whether to print errors and warnings to <tt>$stderr</tt>.  Default is false.
   # @option options [Boolean] :include_link_tags Whether to include css from <tt>link rel=stylesheet</tt> tags.  Default is true.
   # @option options [Boolean] :include_style_tags Whether to include css from <tt>style</tt> tags.  Default is true.
+  # @option options [Boolean] :keep_unmergable_in_head Whether to leave unmergable styles in the head or default to the body.  Default is false.
   # @option options [String] :input_encoding Manually specify the source documents encoding. This is a good idea. Default is ASCII-8BIT.
   # @option options [Boolean] :replace_html_entities Convert HTML entities to actual characters. Default is false.
   # @option options [Boolean] :escape_url_attributes URL Escapes href, src, and background attributes on elements. Default is true.
@@ -189,6 +190,7 @@ def initialize(html, options = {})
                 :io_exceptions => false,
                 :include_link_tags => true,
                 :include_style_tags => true,
+                :keep_unmergable_in_head => false,
                 :input_encoding => 'ASCII-8BIT',
                 :output_encoding => nil,
                 :replace_html_entities => false,
diff --git a/test/test_misc.rb b/test/test_misc.rb
index 0e326685..8489fa86 100644
--- a/test/test_misc.rb
+++ b/test/test_misc.rb
@@ -123,10 +123,7 @@ def test_preserving_styles
 
       # should be preserved as unmergeable
 
-      ## BUG: for hpricot adapter,processed_doc.at('body style') is nil
-      unless adapter == :hpricot
-        assert_match /color: red/i, premailer.processed_doc.at('body style').inner_html
-      end
+      assert_match /color: red/i, premailer.processed_doc.at('body style').inner_html
 
       assert_match /a:hover/i, premailer.processed_doc.at('style').inner_html
     end
@@ -172,18 +169,15 @@ def test_unmergable_media_queries
 
       style_tag = premailer.processed_doc.at('body style')
 
-      # BUG: for hpricot adapter, style_tag is nil
-      unless adapter == :hpricot
-        assert style_tag, "#{adapter} failed to add a body style tag"
-        style_tag_contents = style_tag.inner_html
-
-        assert_equal "color: blue", premailer.processed_doc.at('a').attributes['style'].to_s,
-                    "#{adapter}: Failed to inline the default style"
-        assert_match /@media \(min-width:500px\) \{.*?a \{.*?color: red;.*?\}.*?\}/m, style_tag_contents,
-                    "#{adapter}: Failed to add media query with no type to style"
-        assert_match /@media screen and \(orientation: portrait\) \{.*?a \{.*?color: green;.*?\}.*?\}/m, style_tag_contents,
-                    "#{adapter}: Failed to add media query with type to style"
-      end
+      assert style_tag, "#{adapter} failed to add a body style tag"
+      style_tag_contents = style_tag.inner_html
+
+      assert_match "color: blue", premailer.processed_doc.at('a').attributes['style'].to_s,
+                  "#{adapter}: Failed to inline the default style"
+      assert_match /@media \(min-width:500px\) \{.*?a \{.*?color: red;.*?\}.*?\}/m, style_tag_contents,
+                  "#{adapter}: Failed to add media query with no type to style"
+      assert_match /@media screen and \(orientation: portrait\) \{.*?a \{.*?color: green;.*?\}.*?\}/m, style_tag_contents,
+                  "#{adapter}: Failed to add media query with type to style"
     end
 
   end
diff --git a/test/test_premailer.rb b/test/test_premailer.rb
index 63614b09..58361f40 100644
--- a/test/test_premailer.rb
+++ b/test/test_premailer.rb
@@ -354,4 +354,32 @@ def test_empty_html_nokogiri
     end
   end
 
+  def test_media_queries_when_keep_unmergable_in_head_flag_is_true
+    html = <<-___
+    <!DOCTYPE html>
+    <html><head>
+      <style type="text/css">
+        #remove { color:blue; }
+        @media only screen and (max-width:480px) { table { color:red; } }
+      </style>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+    <div id="editable"> Test </div>
+    </body> </html>
+    ___
+    adapters.each do |adapter|
+      pm = Premailer.new(html, :with_html_string => true, :adapter => adapter, keep_unmergable_in_head: true)
+      pm.to_inline_css
+      doc = pm.processed_doc
+      refute_nil doc.at('head > style')
+      asserted =
+        if adapter == :hpricot
+          doc.at('head > style').html
+        elsif adapter == :nokogiri
+          doc.at('head > style').text
+        end
+      assert_equal(asserted, "\n@media only screen and (max-width:480px) {\n  table {\n    color: red;\n  }\n}\n")
+    end
+  end
+
 end