Roiphe, Anne

Roiphe, Anne

▪ American feminist and author
née  Anne Roth 
born Dec. 25, 1935, New York, N.Y., U.S.

      American feminist and author whose novels and nonfiction explore the conflicts between women's traditional family roles and the desire for an independent identity.

      Anne Roth graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1957 and married Jack Richardson in 1958. The marriage ended in divorce in 1963, and in 1967 she married Herman Roiphe. That year she also published her first novel, Digging Out—a skillfully crafted example of the Jewish-American novel of experience.

      Roiphe's second novel, Up the Sandbox! (1970), is probably her best known. The sharply satiric novel chronicles the story of a college-educated young mother, Margaret, trapped in a humiliating marriage and a thankless domestic routine. To delineate Margaret's vague longings for change, Roiphe's narrative alternates between Margaret's real life as an obedient wife and loving mother and her fantasy life in which she takes on such exciting nontraditional roles as a revolutionary and an anthropologist. The imaginings, however, always end in comic disaster and ultimately fail to bring any sense of fulfillment. Roiphe's later novels, such as Lovingkindness (1987) and The Pursuit of Happiness (1991), continued to explore the contradictions between feminism and motherhood.

      Roiphe also wrote nonfiction, including a bimonthly column for the New York Observer, and contributed many magazine articles about the problems that confront contemporary American families. Her 1996 work, Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World, faults the women's movement for its ongoing negligence of women who choose motherhood and calls for it to devote more energy to issues of child care and parenting.

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