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Author Ramírez-Ferrero, Eric, 1963-

Title Troubled fields : men, emotions, and the crisis in American farming / Eric Ramírez-Ferrero
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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 suggests that the root causes lie not in purely economic or personal factors but rather in the processes of modernization. He shows how cultural and social changes have a dramatic effect on men's identities as providers, stewards, and community members. Using emotions and gender as modes of analysis, he locates these men's stories in the wider context of American history, agricultural economics and politics, capitalism, and Christianity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Suicide -- Oklahoma
Farmers -- Oklahoma -- Psychology
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Oklahoma
PSYCHOLOGY -- Suicide.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Farmers -- Psychology
Suicide
Oklahoma
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004051981
ISBN 0231503636
9780231503631