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
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
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
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
Justin Smith"[T]he happiest, well-feddest wolf in Harlem": Asexuality as Resistance to Social Reproduction in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem2020asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; Black; capitalism; community; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; political theory; politics; queer; race; reproduction; sexusociety
Tiina VaresAsexuals negotiate the 'onslaught of the heteronormative'2021amatonormativity; asexual; community; New Zealand; politics; qualitative methods; queer; queer theory; romantic; sexusociety; single; split attraction
Daniella Cooper, Ela PrzybyloAsexual Resonances: Tracing a Queerly Asexual Archive2014archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; celibacy; history; intimacy; kinship; literature; queer; queer theory; repulsion/aversion; sexusociety; single; theory
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
Amanda L. Mollet"I Have a lot of Feelings, Just None in the Genitalia Region": A Grounded Theory of Asexual College Students' Identity Journeys2020allosexual; asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; disability; identity; intersectionality; LGBTQ; online community; race; romantic; self-identification; sexual violence; sexusociety; social construct; split attraction; trans; whiteness
Anna KurowickaThe Queer Identity for the Twenty-First Century? An Exploration of Asexuality2015a-fluidity; asexual; autism; AVEN; categorization; coming out; community; essentialism; feminism; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; masturbation; media; pathologization; psychology; queer; romantic; sexusociety
Elisabetta RuspiniAsexual Women and Men: Living without Sex2013asexual; AVEN; coming out; HSDD; identity; intimacy; masturbation; reproduction; sexusociety
Elisabetta RuspiniAsexual Women and Men: Living without Sex2013asexual; AVEN; coming out; HSDD; identity; intimacy; masturbation; reproduction; sexusociety
Ela PrzybyloCrisis and Safety: The Asexual in Sexusociety2011asexual; asexual reading/theory; pathologization; performativity; queer theory; sexual violence; sexusociety; social construct; theory
Ela PrzybyloAsexuals against the Cis-Tem!2016aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Boston Marriage; community; compulsory sexuality; disability; discrimination; feminism; gender; gender fluidity; interdisciplinary; intersectionality; LGBTQ; queer; queer theory; race; sexusociety; trans; trans theory; transgender
Megan MilksStunted Growth: Asexual Politics and the Rhetoric of Sexual Liberation2014anarchy; aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; BDSM; celibacy; dehumanization; feminism; gender; identity; infantilization; literature; media; pathologization; political theory; politics; queer; queer theory; reproductive futurity; sexual liberation; sexusociety; trans; virginity
Ela PrzybyloMasculine Doubt and Sexual Wonder: Asexually-Identified Men Talk about their (A)Sexualities2014asexual; gender; intersectionality; masculinity; pathologization; performativity; sexusociety
The Thinking AroMale Asexuality and its Challenge to Masculinityasexual; masculinity; sex; sexusociety
Angela ChenJust let me Liberate you: Chapter from Ace2020allosexual; asexual; celibacy; chastity; compulsory sexuality; feminism; frigidity; political theory; politics; sex; sexual liberation; sexusociety; theory; virginity
Angela ChenPlating with Others: Chapter from Ace2020allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual; community; consent; intimacy; kink; marriage; masturbation; monogamy; nonmonogamy; polyamory; relationships; sex; sexusociety
Sherronda J. BrownAcephobia2022allonormativity; amatonormativity; aphobia; asexual; asexual continuum; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; dehumanization; discrimination; erasure; gender; infantilization; intersectionality; normativity; pathologization; race; sex; sexual violence; sexusociety
Sherronda J. BrownNeverland2022amatonormativity; asexual; Black; black conscious asexuality; colonialism; compulsory sexuality; dehumanization; discrimination; family; heteronormativity; heterosexuality; infantilization; intersectionality; marriage; normativity; race; relationships; sex; sexusociety; single; virginity; whiteness