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Deep Secrets - Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Paperback)
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Deep Secrets - Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Paperback)
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Loot Price R561
Discovery Miles 5 610
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"Boys are emotionally illiterate and don't want intimate
friendships." In this empirically grounded challenge to our
stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense
intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle
adolescence. Boys not only share their deepest secrets and feelings
with their closest male friends, they claim that without them they
would go "wacko." Yet as boys become men, they become distrustful,
lose these friendships, and feel isolated and alone. Drawing from
hundreds of interviews conducted throughout adolescence with black,
Latino, white, and Asian American boys, Deep Secrets reveals the
ways in which we have been telling ourselves a false story about
boys, friendships, and human nature. Boys' descriptions of their
male friendships sound more like "something out of Love Story than
Lord of the Flies." Yet in late adolescence, boys feel they have to
"man up" by becoming stoic and independent. Vulnerable emotions and
intimate friendships are for girls and gay men. "No homo" becomes
their mantra. These findings are alarming, given what we know about
links between friendships and health, and even longevity. Rather
than a "boy crisis," Way argues that boys are experiencing a
"crisis of connection" because they live in a culture where human
needs and capacities are given a sex (female) and a sexuality
(gay), and thus discouraged for those who are neither. Way argues
that the solution lies with exposing the inaccuracies of our gender
stereotypes and fostering these critical relationships and
fundamental human skills.
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