Rebels with a Cause

An in-depth exploration of what boys teach us about humanity and culture, and a call to action to assess the crisis of connection we have created, in order to stop a vicious cycle of violence and blame In her previous groundbreaking book that was the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film Close, NYU professor of developmental psychology Niobe Way describes her research findings that boys and young men have the same emotional and relational intelligence as all other humans and want and need the same thing, which is each other. Yet they grow up in a 'boy' culture that makes them and us think otherwise. Thus, they have a hard time finding what they want and need, especially as they become men. Now in her new book Rebels with a Cause, Way takes it one step further and reveals how these 'rebels with a cause,' as she calls them, not only teach us about themselves but also about ourselves and why we, too, are having such a hard time, as evidenced by the soaring rates of depression,