Publications (2010 to Present)
Books:
(In Progress) Bracha L. Ettinger and Jacques Lacan.
(2010) Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press.
Edited Collections:
(2022) Cavanagh, S.L. & Julian Gutierrez-Albilla. Special Issue titled “The Psychoanalysis of Bracha L. Ettinger.” Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 27.
(2017) Transgender and Psychoanalysis. [Special Double-Issue] Transgender Studies Quarterly, 4.4.
(2013) Co-edited with Angela Failler and Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst. Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapters in Books:
(2024) Cavanagh, S.L. “Anti-black Racism in the Anthropocene: a queer Lacanian reading of a birder and a dog-lover in Central Park” In David Goodman & Michael Mookie Manalili (Eds.), Meaningless Suffering: Traumatic Marginalization and Ethical Responsibility. New York: Routledge.
(2024) “The Ethics of Desire in Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Reading Seminar VII” In Carol Owens (Eds.), Lacan’s Seminar VII. London and New York: Routledge.
(2022) “Tiresias and the Other Sexual Difference: Jacques Lacan and Bracha L. Ettinger.” In P. Gherovici & M. Steinkoler (Eds.), Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexuality: From Feminism to Trans* (pp. 197-211). Cambridge University Press.
(2022) “The Controlled Act of Psychotherapy in Ontario: A Lacanian Impasse.” Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression & Resistance. Eds. Chris Vanderwees & Kristen Hennessy. London and New York: Routledge.
(2022) “Race, perversion, and jouissance in Portrait of Jason.” Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory. Eds. Sheldon George and Derek Hook. London and New York: Routledge.
(2021) Sexing the teacher: Voyeuristic pleasure in the Amy Gehring case. In M. Fitzgerald and S. Rayter (Eds.), Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies (pp. 311-328). Second edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. (Reprint)
(2019) Tiresias: Bracha L. Ettinger and the Transgeression with-in-to the Feminine. In A. Piortrowska & B. Tyrer, (Eds.). Femininity and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Culture, Theory. New York: Routledge.
(2018) “Principles for Psychoanalytic work with Trans Clients” Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies: In Transition. Eds. Oren Gozlan. New York: Routledge.
(2017) “The Queer Body Politics of the Bathroom” Queering the Interior (Eds.) Andrew Gorman-Murray and Matt Cook: Bloomsbury Press.
(2014) “Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Lacanian Mirror: Urinary Segregation and the Bodily Ego” In Psychoanalytic Geographies (Eds.) Paul Kingsbury and Steve Pile. Farnham and Surrey: Ashgate.
(2013) “Touching Gender: Abjection and the Hygienic Imagination” In The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (Eds.) Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura. New York: Routledge (426-442).
(2013) “White Trash: Aileen Wuornos and Queer Productions of Monstrosity” In Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis. Eds. Sheila Cavanagh, Angela Failler and Rachel Hurst. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2012) “Sexing the Teacher: Voyeuristic Pleasure in the Amy Gehring Case” In Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies (Eds.) by Maureen Fitzgerald and Scott Rayter. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. (Reprint)
Co-authored with Heather Sykes. (2012) “Transsexual Bodies at the Olympics: The International Olympic Policy on Transsexual Athletes at the Athens Summer Games” In Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies (Eds.) Maureen Fitzgerald and Scott Rayter. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. (Reprint)
Co-authored with Cara Ellingson and Brenda L. Spencer. (2012) “Subjectivity and Discipline: Women Teachers and Contradictory Norms of Recognition” In Canadian Education: Governing Practices & Producing Subjects (Eds.) Kari Dehli, Brenda Spencer, and James Ryan. Calgary: Detselig Press.
(2011) “Queer Notes on Sex Education in Ontario” In Contemporary Studies in Canadian Curriculum: Principles, Portraits and Practices (Eds.) Darren Stanley and Kelly Young. Calgary: Detselig Press, 237-269.
Papers in Refereed Journals:
(Accepted for 2025) Cavanagh, S.L. Jacques Lacan and The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. General Issue II (30.6).
(2024) Kapoor, Ilan, and Sheila L. Cavanagh. “Missing in Action: Where’s the Unconscious in Anti-Racist “Unconscious Bias Training”?.” Humanities 13.1.
(2022) “The Matrixial Gaze: Transgender in Boys Don’t Cry.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 23.4: 243-255.
(2022) “Transgender and the Other sexual difference in Vivek Shraya’s Trisha.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 27: 485-501.
(2021) “Sociotherapy in the time of COVID-19: A Critical Position Paper on the Importance of Sociology in Psychotherapy.” Journal of Applied Social Sciences. 15(2):1-15.
(2019) “Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis and the Symptom: A Lacanian Approach.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 20(4): 226-230.
(2019) “Transgender, Hysteria, and the Other Sexual Difference: An Ettingerian Approach.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 20.1: 36-50.
(2018). Transcryptums: An Ettingerian Reading of the Trans-subjective Landscape in Transparent” Transgender Studies Quarterly, 6(1): 20-42.
(2018) Transgender Embodiment: A Lacanian Approach. The Psychoanalytic Review, 105(3), 303-327.
(2018) Bracha L. Ettinger, Jacques Lacan and Tiresias: the Other Sexual Difference. Sitegeist: A Journal for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. Issue 13. London: The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 32-50.
(2017) Antigone’s Legacy: A Feminist psychoanalytic of an Other Sexual Difference. Studies in the Maternal. 9(1), p.4.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/sim.223
(2016) “Tiresias and Psychoanalysis after Oedipus” European Journal of Psychoanalysis.
(2016) “Transsexuality as Sinthome: Bracha L. Ettinger and the Other (Feminine) Sexual Difference” Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 17(1): 27-44.
(2013) “Affect, Performance and Ethnographic Methods in Queer Bathroom Monologues”Text and Performance Quarterly, 33(4): 1-22.
Book Reviews
(2022) Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics: Volume I, 1990-2000. Vol. 1. Bracha L. Ettinger, edited and introduced by Griselda Pollock. Springer Nature. Book Review published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 27: 579-583.
Panel Discussions Published in Journals (Reviewed)
(2019) “Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson’s edited book, CLINICAL ENCOUNTERS IN SEXUALITY: PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE & QUEER THEORY.” Gender and Sexuality Studies.
On-line Publications (Reviewed)
(2019) Transgender Psychoanalysis: Lacan, Sex, and Sinthomes. In Public Seminar, The New School for Social Research. http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/06/transgender-psychoanalysis/?fbclid=IwAR0ljIPmHiNz8c33vrFLaTqPE4P0TbWSmXI5HFUz7-c5xFOkieVV3y9aoic
(2015) “Transsexuality and Lacanian Psychoanalysis” in The Freudian Legacy Today, (Eds.) Dina Georgis, Sara Matthews and James Penney, The Canadian Network for Culture and Psychoanalysis.
Encyclopedia Entries
(2021) Bathroom discrimination. In Goldberg, A. E., & Beemyn, G. (Eds.): The SAGE encyclopedia of trans studies (pp. 71-74). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishing.
(2015) “Transgender/Gender-Nonconforming Youth and School Bathrooms” in The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ (Eds.) Abbie Goldberg.
Papers in Non-Refereed Journals
(2011) “You are where you urinate” Gay and Lesbian Review. 18(4): 18-20.
Public Art and Theater Projects:
(2016) Queer Bathroom Stories. Reading at the LGBT Leadership Conference, University of Montana. (Playwright)
(2014) Queer Bathroom Stories. Reading in English 380 identity: Written on the Body, Valparaiso University. (Playwright)
(2014) Queer Bathroom Stories. Professional production at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, June 3-15. (Playwright and Producer)
(2013) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography read at the LGBT Resource Center at Eastern Michigan University, October 17. (Playwright).
(2013) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography read at the LGBTQA Pride Leadership camp in Nashville, July 17, sponsored by the Iron Crow Theatre Company in Baltimore Maryland. (Playwright)
(2013) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography read at the Emergence Queer Arts Festival, Pride Western, London, February 1, sponsored by the University of Western Ontario. (Playwright and Producer)
(2012) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography read at the Center for the Arts, Mainstage Theatre, Towson University (TU), Baltimore, Maryland, November 12, sponsored by TU Center for Student Diversity. (Playwright)
(2012) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography read at the LGBTQA Pride Leadership camp in Nashville, July 17, sponsored by the Iron Crow Theatre Company in Baltimore Maryland. (Playwright)
(2012) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography (play) staged at George Brown College, Toronto, March 22 (Playwright and Producer)
(2012) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography (play) staged at the ‘Walking the Talk: Human Rights in Higher Education’ conference sponsored by the Canadian Association for the Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment in Higher Education, Toronto, May 4 (Playwright and Producer)
(2012) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography (play) staged at the Canadian Sociological Association annual meeting, SSHRC Congress, as a special event following the President’s reception, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 31st. (Playwright and Producer)
(2011) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography (play) staged for an eight day run at the Toronto Fringe Festival, July 6-17th. (Playwright and Producer)
