Troubled fields : men, emotions, and the crisis in American farming

Troubled fields : men, emotions, and the crisis in American farming / Eric Ramírez-Ferrero.

In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide--not accident as previously assumed--was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men were five times more likely to die by suicide than by accident. What was causing these men--but not women--to want to kill themselves? Ramírez-Ferrero...

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Main Author: Ramírez-Ferrero, Eric, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Suicide > Oklahoma.
Farmers > Oklahoma > Psychology.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Oklahoma.
PSYCHOLOGY > Suicide.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Agriculture > Economic aspects
Farmers > Psychology
Suicide
Oklahoma
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : homework
  • The invitation to die
  • The Nelsons
  • Creating Oklahoma : positioning farm men for crisis
  • The good farmer : gender and occupational role evaluation
  • The American agriculture movement and the call to farm
  • Conclusion : modernity, emotions, and social change.

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