Deep Secrets
Boys want close friends as much as girls do. A psychologist asks what happens to those friendships.
Niobe Way, a developmental psychologist, draws on years of interviews with adolescent boys in the United States. She finds that young boys speak openly about their love for their close friends, but that by late adolescence many have lost those friendships and learned to hide their feelings. She links this to cultural ideas of masculinity.
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Carol Gilligan
In Deep Secrets, Niobe Way adds a crucial, final piece to this puzzle, showing a comparable resistance among adolescent boys who also face pressures to sacrifice parts of their humanity. Based on 20 years of research with adolescent boys, Deep Secrets reveals that boys also know the value of close friendships.
Interview · November 2012
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