Cavanagh has written a number of books and articles in the area of gender and sexuality with an emphasis on queer theory and more recently, psychoanalysis. Her first book was titled Sexing the Teacher: School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies (2007).Cavanagh, S. (2007). Sexing the teacher: School sex scandals and queer pedagogies. Vancouver BC:UBC Press. Her second sole-authored book titled Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination (2010)Cavanagh, S. L. (2010). Queering bathrooms: Gender, sexuality, and the hygienic imagination. Toronto Ontario: University of Toronto Press. was a GLBT Indie Book Award finalist and recipient of the CWSA/ACEF Outstanding Scholarship Prize Honourable Mention (2012).
