TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ramirez-Ferrero,Eric
TI  - Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming 
SN  - 9780231130257
AV  - HV6548.U52 O57 2005
U1  - 362.28/1/0886309766 
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Oklahoma
KW  - Farmers
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Suicide
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/rami13024
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231503631
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231503631/original
ER  -