“Rebels with a cause is magnificent! Full of thick stories and deep insights—all brilliantly expressed! Way builds beautifully on Carol Gilligan's work to reveal profound truths about the human condition and highlight a path forward that bypasses moral injury and leads to the meaningful connections we need—individually and collectively—to heal and thrive.”
–Judy Chu, Ed.D., Author of When Boys Become Boys, Lecturer at Stanford University
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“A thoughtful, well-informed look at contemporary boy culture and its many inherent problems.”
–Kirkus
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“Rebels with a Cause is a cri de coeur. Drawing on decades of research, Niobe Way brings us the testimonials of boys, alerting us to the costs of a “boy culture” in which honor is valued over love and life. For Way, boys’ voices became the impetus for taking on a dysfunctional culture by designing projects to support our desire for human connection. Her Listening Project is a brilliant demonstration of how to replace judgment with curiosity and her science of human connection course recognizes our common humanity. This is a book for everyone invested in education and children—meaning everyone who cares about the future.”
–Carol Gilligan, author of In a Human Voice & the little red book that caused a revolution, In a Different Voice
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“In this brilliant and beautifully written book, Niobe Way charts a path forward for all people to overcome isolation and create meaningful lives and relationships, as she analyzes and dismantles the ways constructions of masculinity hurt everyone. This is a must-read and an antidote for our polarized times. Way is a true rebel and an essential critic for our time!”
–Lisa Williams, Ph.D., author of Forget Russia, Professor of Literature, Ramapo College of New Jersey
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“Rebels with a Cause contains wisdom about helping boys in a culture that has become hostile and frightening to them. ”
–Washington Examiner
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“Rebels With a Cause is a key intervention—as a developmental psychologist of immense experience, Niobe Way is uniquely positioned to unravel the very notions of (masculine) development that bind our society as a whole into structures of violence, exclusion, and isolation; in the often painful testimony of boys and teenagers, she also finds a compass to show us the way home.”
–David Wengrow, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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“Reading Niobe Way’s epic new book is one of those experiences that forever changes your understanding of the world you live in. In the mirror it holds up to society and ourselves, we see an urgent, dire need for greater connection, care, and most of all curiosity. The implications of her research create possibilities for dramatic transformation of how we live and how we raise and educate generations to come. Way combines rigorous research with compelling personal stories with inspiring examples of trajectory-changing projects and programs. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about our children, our society, and our future.”
–Jeff Wetzler, Former Chief Educational Officer of Teach for America, Co-Founder of Transcend, and Author of Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You
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“Through brilliant storytelling that includes personal and professional narratives, Professor Way presents a four-part narrative that sets the foundation for understanding some of today’s biggest challenges while offering powerful solutions to these challenges.”
–Michael Cunningham, professor of psychology and Africana studies, and associate provost for the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at Tulane University
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“If you’re not following the work of Niobe Way, you should be. Way shows us how to value human connection in actionable and effective ways. Her new book Rebels with a Cause puts our focus where it belongs: On human relationships.”
–Mark Greene, author of Remaking Manhood: Stories From the Front Lines of Change
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“Rebels with a Cause is an impassioned plea for us all to change our cultural values and views around masculinity and support boys and men in reaching their full humanity.”
–Jill Suttie, Psy.D., Greater Good Magazine
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“Professor Way turns to the population most often blamed for the disconnection and violence in American society—boys and young men—for the solution. In this brilliant book, she presents a societal solution that is fundamental, powerful, and elegant. She tells us this: through interpersonal curiosity, transformative listening, and the replacement of thin stories we tell about one another with thick love and understanding of ourselves and others, we will rebuild our full humanity as a society. ”
–Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Ph.D., Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education, New York University