Searchable Bibliography

Our searchable bibliography will allow you to browse and easily find a list of curated sources pertaining to aromanticism, asexuality, and its related subject matters. To maximize the relevancy of the search results, these are our recommended steps to using the bibliography.

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AuthorsTitleYearTags
pipisafoatOn Asexuality & Coming Out2011Carnival of Aces; coming out
sophia_solOn Mennonite intersectionality with asexuality.2011Carnival of Aces; intersectionality; religion
Megan Arkenberg"A Mayde, and Last of Youre Blood": Galahad’s Asexuality and its Significance in ‘Le Morte D’Arthur’2014archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; celibacy; fiction; gender; history; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; medieval; morality; queer; queer theory; virginity
CJ BishopA mystery wrapped in an enigma--asexuality: a virtual discussion2013aphobia; aromantic; asexual; AVEN; community; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; HSDD; nonsexual; pathologization; psychology; reproduction; romantic
Melissa Shani Brown, Nichola Lucy Partridge"Strangely Like a Person": Cole and the Queering of Asexuality in Dragon Age: Inquisition2021aphobia; archives; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; dehumanization; masculinity; media; nonsexual; otherness; pathologization; queer; representation; video games
Erick BurdockVillains, victims, and virgins: Asexuality in the films of Alfred Hitchcock2018asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; AVEN; celibacy; corrective assault; dandy; death; desexualization; gay; gender; HSDD; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; masculinity; media; otherness; pathologization; queer; queer theory; representation; repulsion/aversion; romantic; sexual violence; trauma; virginity
Dominique A. CanningQueering Asexuality: Asexual-Inclusion in Queer Spaces2015aromantic; asexual; AVEN; bisexual; community; community-building; gatekeeping; identity; LGBTQ; online community; otherness; passing; queer; romantic; split attraction
Nat WrhelThe Acest of Aces: Representations of Asexuality in Fiction2017archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; comics; dehumanization; fiction; gender; LGBTQ; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; queer; romantic; TV
Xu Guo, Day WongConstructions of Asexual Identity in China: Intersections of Class, Gender, Region of Residence, and Asexuality2020aromantic; asexual; China; coming out; HSDD; identity; intersectionality; LGBTQ; mixed methods; online community; pro forma marriage; romantic; single; social construct; trans
Day WongAsexuality in China's sexual revolution: Asexual marriage as coping strategy2015asexual; AVEN; celibacy; China; intimacy; love; marriage; mixed methods; nonsexual; pathologization; platonic; pro forma marriage; romantic; self-identification; sexusociety
Elina Valovirta"Caribbean Passion"--The Hypersexual and the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; death; desexualization; feminism; gender; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; queer theory; race; religion; reproduction
Hillary H. Bush, Lindsey W. Williams, Eva MendesBrief Report: Asexuality and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum2021asexual; autism; disability; gender; HSDD; pathologization; psychology; qualitative methods; quantitative methods
Tiina VaresAsexualities, Intimacies and Relationality2019aromantic; asexual; AVEN; crush; definitions; demisexuality; friendship; gray-asexuality; intimacy; marriage; monogamy; narrative; nonsexual; online community; platonic; queerplatonic; repulsion/aversion; romantic; self-identification; split attraction; squish
Tiina Vares"My [asexuality] is playing hell with my dating life": Romantic identified asexuals negotiate the dating game2018asexual; BDSM; gender; intimacy; monogamy; New Zealand; nonmonogamy; qualitative methods; romantic; split attraction
Carter VanceUnwilling Consumers: Towards a Historical Materialist Concept of Asexuality and Compulsory Sexuality2018asexual; asexual reading/theory; capitalism; feminism; neoliberal; political theory; politics; queer theory; theory
Grace TiffanyFalstaff's False Staff: "Jonsonian" Asexuality in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"1992asexual; community; early modern; literary analysis/theory; literature; Shakespeare
Hendrike Tel"This Work is Tagged 'Asexual Character'": An Analysis of Asexuality in Fanfiction2020aphobia; aromantic; asexual; community; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; online community; pathologization; psychology; quantitative methods; queer; romantic; split attraction; TV
Nathan SnazaAsexuality and Erotic Biopolitics2020antiracism; asexual; asexual reading/theory; biocultural; colonialism; compulsory sexuality; intersectionality; kinship; literary analysis/theory; literature; political theory; queer; queer theory; race
Mark Alan SmithBypassing the Asexual Paradox: A Strategic Retelling of the History of Asexuality2017asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; death; early modern; history; identity; medieval; psychology; queer; queer theory; religion; reproductive futurity; sexusociety
Justin Smith"[T]he happiest, well-feddest wolf in Harlem": Asexuality as Resistance to Social Reproduction in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem2020asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; Black; capitalism; community; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; political theory; politics; queer; race; reproduction; sexusociety