Troubled Fields : Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming /
Ramirez-Ferrero, Eric
Troubled Fields : Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming / Eric Ramirez-Ferrero. - 1 online resource (240 p.) : 8 photos
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Homework -- 1. The Invitation to Die -- 2. The Nelsons -- 3. Creating Oklahoma: Positioning Farm Men for Crisis -- 4. The Good Farmer: Gender and Occupational Role Evaluation -- 5. The American Agriculture Movement and the Call to Farm -- Conclusion. Modernity, Emotions, and Social Change -- Appendix.Wide, Open Spaces (1993) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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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? RamÃrez-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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231130257 9780231503631
10.7312/rami13024 doi
2004051981
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Oklahoma.
Farmers--Psychology.--Oklahoma
Suicide--Oklahoma.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
HV6548.U52 / O57 2005 HV6548.U52 / O57 2005
362.28/1/0886309766
Troubled Fields : Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming / Eric Ramirez-Ferrero. - 1 online resource (240 p.) : 8 photos
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Homework -- 1. The Invitation to Die -- 2. The Nelsons -- 3. Creating Oklahoma: Positioning Farm Men for Crisis -- 4. The Good Farmer: Gender and Occupational Role Evaluation -- 5. The American Agriculture Movement and the Call to Farm -- Conclusion. Modernity, Emotions, and Social Change -- Appendix.Wide, Open Spaces (1993) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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? RamÃrez-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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231130257 9780231503631
10.7312/rami13024 doi
2004051981
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Oklahoma.
Farmers--Psychology.--Oklahoma
Suicide--Oklahoma.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
HV6548.U52 / O57 2005 HV6548.U52 / O57 2005
362.28/1/0886309766