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
sophia_solOn Mennonite intersectionality with asexuality.2011Carnival of Aces; intersectionality; religion
Elina Valovirta"Caribbean Passion"--The Hypersexual and the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; death; desexualization; feminism; gender; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; queer theory; race; religion; reproduction
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
Sadie FrickLove is a Many-Splendored Thing: A celebration of the diverse spectrum of love2022aromantic; asexual; love; philosophy; psychology; queer; queerplatonic; religion; romantic; split attraction
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 Virginity in Early Modern English Drama2000early modern; gender; medieval; nonsexual; protestant; queer; queer theory; religion; virginity
Amanda L. Mollet, Brian LackmanAllonormativity and Compulsory Sexuality2022allosexual; amatonormativity; aphobia; asexual; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; discrimination; fiction; gender; identity; LGBTQ; nonsexual; pathologization; privilege; religion; representation; sex education; single; trans; 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
Selena C. BaughImpact of Compulsory Sexuality on LGB and Asexual Media Consumers2019adolescence; aromantic; asexual; bisexual; compulsory sexuality; gay; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; love; media; pathologization; religion; TV
Milica Batričević, Andrej CvetićUncovering an A: Asexuality and Asexual Activism in Croatia and Serbia2016asexual; asexual reading/theory; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; discrimination; gatekeeping; HSDD; identity; intersectionality; intimacy; LGBTQ; politics; queer; queer theory; religion; self-identification; visibility
Ben Brandley, Leland G. SpencerRhetorics of Allonormativity: The Case of Asexual Latter-Day Saints2022aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; queer; religion; romantic; trans
Kristina Gupta, KJ CerankowskiAsexualities and Media2018asexual; asexual continuum; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; definitions; disability; literary analysis/theory; literature; love; media; nonsexual; queer; religion; representation; TV
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
Ela PrzybyloCritical Nonsexualities2017antiracism; archives; asexual; asexual resonances; celibacy; colonialism; desexualization; disability; erotics; gender; indigenous; intersectionality; kinship; LGBTQ; nonmonogamy; nonsexual; politics; queer; race; religion; single; sovereignty; transnational; virginity
Benjamin KahanCelibacies: American Modernism & Sexual Life2013asexual; Black; Boston Marriage; celibacy; friendship; gender; marriage; philosophy; queer; race; religion; spinster
Myra T. JohnsonAsexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups1977asexual; celibacy; feminism; masturbation; pathologization; religion; reproduction; sexual liberation; virginity
sydney khooFree Toy Included2017adolescence; aromantic; asexual; Asian; celibacy; dating; demisexuality; family; fanfic; food; kink; love; marriage; masturbation; orgasm; relationships; religion; sex
demiandproudA-Spec: Equality For Lack of a Romantic Orientation (and Gender)2019aromantic; asexual; Carnival of Aros; religion
The Ace Couple, Courtney LaneBeing a Jamaican Ace in Catholic School, A "Right to Sex", & Other Allonormative Nonsense ft. Fara2023allonormativity; amatonormativity; aphobia; asexual; Black; black conscious asexuality; Catholic; dating; diaspora; religion
Sara K.Experiencing Neither Romance Nor Spirituality2019aromantic; Carnival of Aros; religion