Harriet Fraad

Harriet Louise Fraad (born August 19, 1941) is an American feminist activist, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist in New York City. She has been practicing as a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist for 37 years. She is said to be a founding member of the Feminist movement, owed in part to her founding of the Women's Liberation Movement in 1968. She is the founder of the journal Rethinking Marxism and specializes in writing about the intersection between economics and psychology.

Personal life

Harriet Louise Fraad was born to Jewish parents, Lewis M. Fraad, a pediatrician, and Irma London, who both had leftist sympathies. She is married to Marxian economist and intellectual Richard D. Wolff. Wolff and Fraad have two children together. She and Wolff co-write for Economy and Psychology, a blog on the interface of those two topics. She has two sisters, Julie Fraad and Rosalyn Baxandall.

Her father worked for the Comintern in Vienna from 1932 to 1936 and was a member of the Communist Party of America from 1929 to 1957. Her maternal grandfather was Horace London, the brother and campaign manager of Meyer London, later a U.S. Representative. An activist her entire life, Fraad has contributed to works and been a founding member in movements like the second-wave women's movement. She gives regular talks on the Julianna Forlano Morning show on WBAI, MK Mendoza on KSFR, and Women's Spaces on WBBK. The latest work she contributed to was Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees.

Fraad's uncle was Ephraim London, Irma's brother, and through him, her maternal cousin was Sheila Michaels, a feminist and activist, whom Ephraim never publicly acknowledged as his daughter.

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