
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