Troubled Fields

Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Men&, Anthropology
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Author: Eric Ramirez-Ferrero ISBN: 9780231503631
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: January 19, 2005
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Eric Ramirez-Ferrero
ISBN: 9780231503631
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: January 19, 2005
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

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.

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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? 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.

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