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
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
Chase Aunspach, Casey Ryan KellyIncels, Compulsory Sexuality, and Fascist Masculinity2020asexual; AVEN; celibacy; community; compulsory sexuality; gender; homosociality; masculinity; nonsexual; online community; platonic; politics; queer; sexual violence; sexusociety
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
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
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
Celeste RobertsAsexuality in Victorian England: The Celibate Eccentric Genius Trope in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, and Sherlock Holmes2021asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; bachelor; celibacy; history; literary analysis/theory; literature; queer theory; reproductive futurity
Simone ChessAsexuality, Queer Chastity, and Adolescence in Early Modern Literature2018adolescence; asexual; asexual reading/theory; celibacy; early modern; gender; history; infantilization; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; queer; queer theory; Shakespeare
KJ CerankowskiMaking Nothing Out of Something: Asexuality and the Rhetorics of Silence and Absence2022asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; celibacy; colonialism; demisexuality; literary analysis/theory; narrative; nonsexual; queer; queer theory; race; silence; sovereignty; virginity
Mark CarriganAsexuality2015a-fluidity; aphobia; aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; asexual reading/theory; categorization; celibacy; definitions; demisexuality; discrimination; essentialism; gatekeeping; gender; gray-asexuality; HSDD; identity; LGBTQ; pathologization; psychology; queer; self-identification; split attraction
Daniella Cooper, Ela PrzybyloAsexual Resonances: Tracing a Queerly Asexual Archive2014archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; celibacy; history; intimacy; kinship; literature; queer; queer theory; repulsion/aversion; sexusociety; single; theory
Dan CopulskyAsexual Polyamory: Potential Challenges and Benefits2016asexual; celibacy; community; identity; intersectionality; intimacy; jealousy; nonmonogamy; online community
Lysa Westberg GabrielSlashing the Invisible: Bodily Autonomy in Asexual Fan Fiction2018aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; celibacy; definitions; gender; HSDD; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; nonbinary; online community; pathologization; queer; representation
John GuilloryThe Bachelor State: Philosophy and Sovereignty in Bacon’s New Atlantis2006bachelor; celibacy; community; early modern; friendship; gender; history; homosociality; marriage; masculinity; philosophy; politics; protestant; religion; university
Alex HendersonLet's Talk About Love, Tash Hearts Tolstoy, and the Asexual Coming- of-Age Story2019adolescence; aphobia; asexual; celibacy; dehumanization; fiction; infantilization; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; online community; pathologization; queer; romantic
Theodora A. JankowskiPure Resistance: Queer(y)ing Virginity in William Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'1998celibacy; early modern; gender; literary analysis/theory; literature; platonic; queer; queer theory; Shakespeare; virginity
Amanda L. Mollet, Brian LackmanAllonormativity and Compulsory Sexuality2022allosexual; amatonormativity; aphobia; asexual; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; discrimination; fiction; gender; identity; LGBTQ; nonsexual; pathologization; privilege; religion; representation; sex education; single; trans; TV
Margaret Rose McDowellAgainst Compulsory Sexuality: Asexual Figures of Resistance2022allosexual; archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Black; Boston Marriage; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; dehumanization; erotics; feminism; gender; intimacy; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; politics; pop culture; queer theory; race; reproductive futurity; sexual liberation; sexusociety; single; TV; world building
Andrew Clinton HinderliterThe Evolution of Online Asexual Discourse2016archives; aromantic; asexual; AVEN; celibacy; demisexuality; gender; gray-asexuality; LGBTQ; online community; qualitative methods; repulsion/aversion; romantic; split attraction
Joanna Łapińska'The Most Exciting Thing is Not-Doing-It', or Andy Warhol's 'Philosophy of Love' on the Basis of 'Blow Job' and 'My Hustler'2015art; art history; asexual; celibacy; erotics; fantasies; love; media; narrative; pathologization; philosophy; platonic; psychology; romantic; virginity
Anna KurowickaAsexual Affects: What Abjection, Anxiety, and Shame Have to Do with Asexuality2015asexual; asexual reading/theory; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; death; identity; LGBTQ; mental illness; pathologization; psychology; queer; queer theory; repulsion/aversion; trauma