Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture (Niobe Way, 2024)

"When I lived in Nanjing, China, in the 1980s, the young men who populated the campus on which my father worked held hands or hung on each other when they walked together, with one arm over the other’s shoulders. In the summertime, they wore short shorts, plastic sandals, and nylon socks, as the nylon prevented their feet from getting hot and sticky. My American eyes coded such behavior as girlie,…