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
Jordan WindholzThe Queer Testimonies of Male Chastity in All's Well That Ends Well2019bachelor; early modern; identity; literary analysis/theory; literature; marriage; masculinity; protestant; queer; queer theory; reproductive futurity; Shakespeare; single; virginity
Jordan WindholzBallads, Journeymen, and Bachelor Community in Shakespeare's London2016bachelor; community; early modern; marriage; masculinity; Shakespeare; single
Grace TiffanyFalstaff's False Staff: "Jonsonian" Asexuality in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"1992asexual; community; early modern; literary analysis/theory; literature; Shakespeare
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
Melissa E. SanchezAntisocial Procreation in Measure for Measure2017asexual; asexual reading/theory; early modern; gender; literary analysis/theory; literature; new materialism; pregnancy; queer; queer theory; reproduction; reproductive futurity; Shakespeare
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
Simone ChessOpting Out: Anorexia, Asexuality, and Early Modern Women2020anorexia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; disability; disability theory/studies; early modern; greensickness; history; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; mental illness; queer; queer theory; reproduction; virginity
Megan ColeTraumatic Pregnancy, Queer Virginity, and Asexual Reproduction in Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure2021amatonormativity; asexual; asexual reading/theory; early modern; feminism; gender; history; kinship; literary analysis/theory; literature; marriage; nonsexual; queer; queer theory; representation; reproduction; trauma; virginity
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
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
Theodora A. JankowskiPure Resistance: Queer Virginity in Early Modern English Drama2000early modern; gender; medieval; nonsexual; protestant; queer; queer theory; religion; virginity
Gwendolyn OsterwaldContradictions in the Representation of Asexuality: Fiction and Reality2017aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; early modern; history; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; medieval; pathologization; queer; reproductive futurity; TV
Nicole PolgazeHe Hath No Power O'er True Virginity: Asexuality and Power in Milton's Comus2021asexual; asexual reading/theory; celibacy; classical; early modern; gender; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; mythology; protestant; religion; sexual violence; silence; virginity
Melissa E. SanchezProtestantism, marriage and asexuality in Shakespeare2020asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; compulsory sexuality; early modern; gender; literary analysis/theory; literature; medieval; protestant; queer; queer theory; religion; sexual violence; Shakespeare
Lisa Moore'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England1992Boston Marriage; England; femininity; feminism; friendship; gender; history; intimacy; lesbian; literary analysis/theory; literature; romantic
Liza Blake, Nicholas Brush, Simone Chess, Rachel Chung, Catherine Clifford, Aley O'MaraEarly Modern Asexuality and Performance: An ACMRS Roundtable2020allonormativity; allosexual; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; Catholic; celibacy; chastity; early modern; food; gender; gray-asexuality; history; intimacy; literary analysis/theory; literature; performativity; protestant; Shakespeare
Liza BlakeTeaching Premodern Asexualities and Aromanticisms2022alloromantic; aromantic; aromantic reading/theory; asexual; asexual reading/theory; compulsory sexuality; desexualization; early modern; education; friendship; queer; queer theory; race; representation
Liza BlakeDildos and Accessories: The Functions of Early Modern Strap-Ons2011early modern; fetish; gender; nonhuman; queer theory
Benjamin KahanCelibacies: American Modernism & Sexual Life2013asexual; Black; Boston Marriage; celibacy; friendship; gender; marriage; philosophy; queer; race; religion; spinster