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.
eISBN: 978-0-231-50363-1
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology
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