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Troubled fields : men, emotions, and the crisis in American farming /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ramírez-Ferrero, Eric, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.