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
Claudie ArseneaultDeath, Stillness, and Exile--Three Prongs of Asexual Imagery in Fiction2017aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; community; death; dehumanization; literary analysis/theory; literature; narrative; otherness; representation; romantic
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
Dominique A. CanningQueering Asexuality: Asexual-Inclusion in Queer Spaces2015aromantic; asexual; AVEN; bisexual; community; community-building; gatekeeping; identity; LGBTQ; online community; otherness; passing; queer; romantic; split attraction
Elijah G. StuckiCompulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students2019amatonormativity; aromantic; art; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; colonialism; coming out; community; community-building; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; definitions; dehumanization; disability; gender; HSDD; identity; intersectionality; kinship; LGBTQ; mental illness; nonbinary; otherness; pathologization; queer; race; romantic; sexual violence; social construct; trans
Francesca CoppaSherlock as Cyborg: Bridging Mind and Body2012asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; dehumanization; media; otherness; TV
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
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
Madeline AndrewsQueering Austen: Mary Bennet, Aromanticism and Asexuality in Pride and Prejudice2022aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; gender; literary analysis/theory; literature; marriage; narrative; otherness; queer; romantic
Kristina Gupta"And Now I'm Just Different, but There's Nothing Actually Wrong with Me": Asexual Marginalization and Resistance2017asexual; AVEN; community; compulsory sexuality; desexualization; friendship; identity; nonsexual; otherness; pathologization; romantic
Claudie ArseneaultAsexuality and Death and Other Associations2017asexual; asexual reading/theory; death; dehumanization; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; narrative; otherness; representation
KJ CerankowskiSpectacular Asexuals: Media Visibility and Cultural Fetish2014asexual; AVEN; comics; dehumanization; erotics; fetishization; gold star asexual; media; otherness; performativity; queer; representation; spectacle
Jana Fedtke"What to Call that Sport, the Neuter Human..." Asexual Subjectivity in Keri Hulme's The Bone People2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; compulsory sexuality; fiction; gender; identity; literary analysis/theory; literature; Maori; marriage; otherness; queer; queer theory
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. BrownGatekeeping2022allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual continuum; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; discourse; discrimination; erasure; fetishization; gatekeeping; gender; heteronormativity; invisible; LGBTQ; media; normativity; otherness; queer; relationships; representation; sex; sexual liberation; sexual violence; trauma
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. BrownPossibilities2022allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual; black conscious asexuality; compulsory sexuality; heteronormativity; identity; normativity; orientation; otherness; queer; self-identification
Sherronda J. BrownBlack Asexual insights2022aromantic; asexual; Black; black conscious asexuality; discrimination; fetishization; invisible; otherness; race; representation; stereotypes