Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming

By Eric Ramirez-Ferrero

In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide -- not accident as previously assumed -- was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among male farmers. Ram rez-Ferrero suggests that the root causes lie not in purely economic or personal factors but rather in the processes of modernization. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231130252
• ISBN13: 9780231130257
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher