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.

  1. Select the tags you are interested in the advanced filters such as affect, adolescence. Tags were manually assigned by our research team to each resource to ensure they are relevant.
  2. If you want to further specify your search results, you can also select the category (article, book chapter, etc.) and type of resource (academic or community).
  3. Search up the term you are looking for in the search bar. Your results will be filtered based on the tags, category, and type you've selected.
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AuthorsTitleYearTags
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
KatieThe Colonized Asexual--a response to racial trauma2014asexual; Asian; colonialism; desexualization; discrimination; femininity; politics; race; trauma
Eunjung KimAsexualities and Disabilities in Constructing Sexual Normalcy2014asexual; crip; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; femininity; frigidity; gender; history; invisible; normativity; pathologization
Sherronda J. BrownRefusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture2022adolescence; antiracism; aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; capitalism; compulsory sexuality; controlling images; corrective assault; definitions; dehumanization; femininity; fetishization; frigidity; gatekeeping; gender; history; infantilization; intersectionality; masculinity; monstrosity; nonhuman; objectification; pathologization; queer; race; reproduction; reproductive futurity
Kristina GuptaGendering asexuality and asexualizing gender: A qualitative study exploring the intersections between gender and asexuality2018asexual; compulsory sexuality; femininity; gender; masculinity; qualitative methods; sex; trans; transgender; trauma; whiteness
Ellen Van Houdenhove, Luk Gijs, Guy T’Sjoen, Paul EnzlinStories About Asexuality: A Qualitative Study on Asexual Women2015aromantic; asexual; AVEN; coming out; femininity; gender; identity; intimacy; love; relationships; romantic; sex
Allie Daisy KingThe Lack of Asexual Characters In Pop Culture Is A Product Of The Male Gaze2023asexual; femininity; feminism; film; nonbinary; patriarchy; representation; TV; visibility
Angela ChenAce: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex2020allonormativity; allosexual; amatonormativity; aphobia; aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; dehumanization; desexualization; disability; discourse; erotics; femininity; friendship; frigidity; gender; identity; interdisciplinary; intersectionality; intimacy; LGBTQ; literature; marriage; masculinity; media; monogamy; morality; narrative; online community; otherness; queer; race; relationships; self-identification; sex; stereotypes
Sherronda J. BrownDesire2022allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual; capitalism; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; disability; discrimination; femininity; frigidity; gender; health; heteronormativity; HSDD; masculinity; mental illness; normativity; orgasm; otherness; pathologization; patriarchy; pleasure; psychology; repulsion/aversion; self-identification; shame; whiteness
Sherronda J. BrownFrigidity 2022corrective assault; femininity; feminism; frigidity; heteronormativity; heterosexuality; history; HSDD; marriage; masculinity; orgasm; pathologization; repulsion/aversion
Sherronda J. BrownUnfit 2022allonormativity; asexual; Binary; Black; black conscious asexuality; compulsory sexuality; femininity; feminism; gender; heteronormativity; heterosexuality; lesbian; masculinity; normativity; patriarchy; race; sex; trans; transgender; whiteness
Sherronda J. BrownRefusal2022aromantic; asexual; asexual resonances; Black; black conscious asexuality; categorization; compulsory sexuality; femininity; gender; heteronormativity; history; identity; masculinity; queer