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
KJGuest Post: Children, Marriage and Family Expectations2011Carnival of Aces
Elizabeth BrakeMinimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law2012amatonormativity; asexual; community; compulsory sexuality; discrimination; gender; injustice; jealousy; law; marriage; monogamy; morality; nonmonogamy; objectification; philosophy; platonic; political theory; privilege; relationships; romantic; sexual violence; social construct
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
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
Essi VirtanenThe Representation of Queer Identities in Terry Pratchett's Discworld2022amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; fiction; gender; identity; literary analysis/theory; literature; marriage; nonbinary; queer; queer theory; representation; romantic; virginity
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
Kristin S. ScherrerWhat Asexuality Contributes to the Same-Sex Marriage Discussion2010amatonormativity; feminism; gatekeeping; intimacy; LGBTQ; marriage; nonmonogamy; queer; single; trans; whiteness
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
Sarah SalihVersions of Virginity in Late Medieval England2001asexual resonances; gender; love; marriage; medieval; nonbinary; reproductive futurity; virginity
Nathan ErroAsexy Pioneer: Asexuality Versus Eroticism in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!2011asexual; asexual reading/theory; feminism; gender; jealousy; LGBTQ; literary analysis/theory; literature; marriage
Daniela CutasEditorial: On Love2018amatonormativity; autism; Black; colonialism; friendship; gender; love; marriage; morality; nonmonogamy; philosophy; queer; race; reproduction; romantic
Colin Görke"Melted Your Cold Heart Yet?" Amatonormative Masculinity in Casino Royale and Spectre2019amatonormativity; aromantic; feminism; friendship; gender; marriage; masculinity; media; platonic; pop culture; queerplatonic; romantic
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
Anna KurowickaWhat Can Asexuality do for Queer Theories?2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; marriage; political theory; politics; queer; queer theory; reproductive futurity; theory
Christina LangIntimacy and Desire Through the Lens of an Aro-Ace Woman of Color2018amatonormativity; anarchy; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Boston Marriage; coming out; demisexuality; desexualization; feminism; friendship; gender; gold star asexual; identity; intersectionality; intimacy; kinship; media; pathologization; queer theory; race; romantic; sex education; single; theory; TV
Katie LinderQueering the Nuclear Family: Navigating Familial Living as an Asexual (Personal Reflection)2019aromantic; asexual; community; compulsory sexuality; friendship; gray-asexuality; intimacy; LGBTQ; marriage; queerplatonic; romantic; self-identification; sexual violence
Savie LuceAsexual Erasure Undone: A Short Literary History of Asexuality in 19th- to 20th- Century Literary Classics2021aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Boston Marriage; definitions; erotics; fetishization; gray-asexuality; infantilization; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; narrative; nonsexual; queer; queerplatonic; romantic
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