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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.

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An 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

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Introduction. 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

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/19/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780231130257, 978-0231130257
      ISBN10: 0231130252

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      An 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 Contents
      Introduction. 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

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