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Rebels with a Cause

Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture

by Niobe Way
Niobe Way
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From NYU professor of developmental psychology Niobe Way, an in-depth exploration about what boys and young men teach us about themselves, us, and the toxic culture we have created, one in which we value money over people, toys over human connection, and academic achievement over kindness. Based on her longitudinal and mixed-method research over thirty-five years, Rebels with a Cause is a true call to action to change the culture so that we stop the vicious cycle of violence and blame.
 
Dr. Niobe Way has spent her career researching social and emotional development and finds that boys and young men desperately want and need the same thing as everyone else: close friendships. Yet they and we grow up in a stereotyped “boy” culture, one that devalues and mocks those relationships, rather than recognizing that they’re necessary for human survival.
 
In Rebels with a Cause, Way takes her message one step beyond her previous book, Deep Secrets, which was the inspiration for an Oscar-nominated film Close, to reveal how these “rebels,” as she calls the boys and young men in her research and in her classrooms, teach us about their and our crisis of connection, evidence of which is visible in our soaring rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness, suicide, and mass violence. They also teach us about the solutions to the crisis, which is to care, to listen with curiosity, and to take individual and collective responsibility for the damage we have done to them, to ourselves, and to the world around us.
 
Way provides us not only with data-driven insight into the roots and consequences of this crisis of connection, but also offers us concrete and empirically tested strategies for creating a culture that better aligns with our human nature and our human needs. Her book reminds us that “it’s not the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it’s the troubles that cause the rebels.” The time to listen to and act on what young rebels have been telling us for almost a century is now.

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    July 9, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780593869949
      • File size: 238093 KB
      • Duration: 08:16:01

  • Languages

    • English

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 20, 2024
      NYU psychology professor Way (Deep Secrets) provides an insightful analysis of the stereotypes that shape boys’ psychological development and undergird a patriarchal society. Drawing on more than 30 years of research, the author observes that boys in elementary school tend to be “openly expressive” of their emotions and that those who maintain strong friendships in their teenage years are less likely to become depressed, use illicit drugs and alcohol, or partake in other high-risk behaviors. However, prevailing beliefs that men are “driven mostly by their desire for sex and money” and seek autonomy over emotional connection reinforce a patriarchal culture that prevents boy from expressing themselves, connecting with others, and developing healthy coping mechanisms. Much of the author’s research is fascinating, particularly her extensive interviews with boys of color, though readers may wish for more robust solutions than the advice to ask male teens and children “real questions” and “allow for real answers.” Still, parents of adolescent boys will find much food for thought.

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