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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