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I assume the author is the Betty Friedan. This would be about 5 years before she wrote The Feminine Mystique, easily one of the most influential books in modern history.

It's kind of fascinating to see her here at 37, working in obscurity, knocking out fairly pedestrian writing assignments, when in just a few years she's going to change the world.

This is what I thought about posting. I've read a lot of books this year (45 books totaling 22,000 pages), the most important being: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, The Grapes of Wrath, The Price of Inequality, The Happiness Hypothesis.

But, out of all that (which I had to go look up on my Goodreads), HPMOR is what came to mind, both an engaging story, thought provoking ideas, and a lot of pages to work with :).

The seminal feminist work in the US is probably Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.

> He did had also speeches about Jews being Marxists

That's a historical fact.

A lot of Jews who left early Soviet Russia because of discrimination carried Marxism to other countries.

The original feminist author of "The Feminine Mystique", Betty Friedan, is a Jewish Marxist. She told women in 1963 that being a wife was slavery, yet has her own family, of course. And here we are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique

If you're interested in learning more about Marxist influences in America, look for interviews with their family members - invariably they turn into denunciations of their "hypocritical Marxist" relatives.

(Recently the writers for "Sex and the City" and "Cosmopolitan" admitted they misled women with feminist rhetoric that serves a narrative, but not individual women.)

Two that did it for me:

- The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt. Really deepened my understanding of how Western and other cultures think about moral and ethical issues.

- The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan. It's a feminist book that is very non-ideological, and helped me, as someone born in the 80's, appreciate some very real and practical issues that feminism has helped us address.

I'll add this brief comment as a reference in case anybody wants to research it more.

There are 20-year cycles that I've heard of recently.

For Cultural Marxism in the US, 1970, 1990, 2010. Those are roughly the generational periods of new counter-cultural US university professors.

There's also a related cycle starting with Betty Friedan's Marxist-Feminist book, The Feminine Mystique, in 1963 and each generation after of about 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Friedan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique

When Marxism, Marxist Feminism and CRT and BLM overlap, you get the amplification and extremism you see in the left in 2020, like AOC being an elected yet open Marxist, and antifa fascists.