She seeks insights into her unstable affairs, breakups, and challenges as a single mother in the lives and work of such outwardly successful writers as Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir, Mary McCarthy, and Rebecca West, who nevertheless abdicated power in their personal lives. In these reflective, journal-like entries, Roiphe opens up, revealing the gentler person behind the polemical writer - and the accomplished literary scholar behind both.
The Power Notebooks is a series of brief-but-potent meditations on women, autonomy, independence, and power, and more specifically on "women strong in public, weak in private" - including herself.
In her most personal book to date, Katie Roiphe - frequently a lightning rod for her inflammatory, unpopular stances on issues such as date rape - probes questions raised by the turbulence in her private and professional life. Some people, my mother used to say, look for trouble.
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