In her searching, pensive new book, “The Power Notebooks ,” Roiphe turns her theorizing on herself.ĭeparting from the argumentative style for which she is best known, she records instead, in a series of short, diarylike essays, the “uncertainties, doubts, shifts” that preoccupied her during a particularly tumultuous period and prompted her to reflect on the history of her romantic relationships with men.
Throughout her career, which has included books praising messy lives and untraditional marriages, Katie Roiphe has militated against women defining themselves as victims, arguing - most controversially in her 1993 book “The Morning After” - that we give our power away when we see ourselves as fragile beings in need of protection from overbearing men that our sexual experience, even in fraught encounters, may be more complex than terms like “date rape” or “abuse” would seem to allow.
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