Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming
by
Eric Ramirez-Ferrero
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
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...