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
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
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
Alok Vaid-MenonWhat's R(ace) Got To Do With It?: White Privilege & (A)sexuality2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; colonialism; gender; history; identity; intersectionality; masculinity; narrative; political theory; politics; privilege; queer; race; South Asian; trauma; whiteness
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
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
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
Donna M. Mandigo, Louis F. KavarThe Asexual Male Experience: A Phenomenological Inquiry2022allosexual; aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; definitions; friendship; gender; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; masculinity; masturbation; otherness; platonic; psychology; qualitative methods; queerplatonic; relationships; romantic; self-identification; split attraction
Adam KeyThe Silent A: A Critical Soundtrack of Asexuality2021asexual; asexual continuum; asexual reading/theory; masculinity; queer; silence
Eunjung Kim"A Man, with the Same Feelings": Disability, Humanity, and Heterosexual Apparatus in Breaking the Waves, Born on the Fourth of July, Breathing Lessons, and Oasis2010asexual; dehumanization; disability; disability theory/studies; feminism; gender; intimacy; Korean; masculinity; media; otherness; pathologization; queer
Min Joo LeeIntimacy Beyond Sex: Korean Television Dramas, Nonsexual Masculinities, and Transnational Erotic Desires2020asexual; erotics; fetishization; gender; intersectionality; k-drama; Korean; masculinity; nonsexual; romantic; whiteness
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
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
Petra Filipová, Pavol Jozef ŠafárikGendered Discourse and Asexuality in Postmillennial Media2021asexual; AVEN; community; definitions; gender; HSDD; masculinity; media; representation; TV
Jana FedtkeThe Erasure of Asexuality: Sheldon's Masculinity in The Big Bang Theory2021asexual; asexual reading/theory; disability; marriage; masculinity; media; pathologization; pop culture; reproduction; TV
Cynthia BarounisVulnerable constitutions : queerness, disability, and the remaking of American manhood2019asexual; crip; disability; disability theory/studies; gender; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; North America; pathologization; politics; queer; queer theory