
Elizabeth Anne Wood
she/her
Senior Strategist
Elizabeth Anne Wood is a SUNY Chancellor’s Award-winning Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Nassau Community College. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University in 1999 for a study of gender, interaction and power in strip clubs. She has published research on sex work and women’s sexual expression on the internet in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and Feminism & Psychology. Her work has also been published online with Scientific American and HERS Magazine. She’s been interviewed for Authority Magazine and been cited as an expert in Mens’ Health and Elite Daily. Her radio and podcast appearances include Culture Shocks (Barry Lynn), Sex Out Loud (Tristan Taormino), Our Better Half (Drs. Jane Fleishman and Ashley Mader), and Peepshow Podcast (PJ and Jessie Sage).
Elizabeth’s debut memoir, Bound: A Daughter, a Domme and an End-of-Life Story (She Writes Press, 2019) explores themes of sexuality, illness, aging, and the dysfunctions of the U. S. health care system. When she isn’t writing, teaching, or strategizing you can catch her on the flying trapeze.
Blog Posts
- Want to fix a problem? The first step is to name it. - 2017
- Even Moms Get Kinky. Even Dommes Get Sick. - 2015
- Sharing Power: Buffy, Birthdays, and Books - 2015
- Sexuality and Playfulness Aid the Aging and Ill - 2015
- Sexual Power, “Other Powers,” and a Strange Saturday Coincidence - 2014
- The Beauty of Older Women’s Bodies - 2013
- Who are our mothers’ lovers? - 2013
- Ambivalence, Realism, and Holiday Cheer - 2013
- Patient Dominance - 2013
- Everything is Sticky - 2013
- Treating the whole person - 2013
- Boundaries - 2013
- Rebirth - 2013
- Does Drivers’ Ed Undermine Parental Rights? - 2011