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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewAn invaluable contribution to the ethnography of agriculture in the United States. Great Plains Research This richly researched and well-written book is valuable for many reasons -- Leon Ginsberg, University of South Carolina Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Table of ContentsIntroduction. 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
