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
C. BougieComposing Aromanticism2021amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; AVEN; categorization; coming out; definitions; discrimination; dysphoria; friendship; gender; identity; kinship; narrative; online community; poetry; queer; queer theory; relationships; self-identification; social construct; split attraction; theory
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
yingchen, yingtongAn aromantic manifesto2018amatonormativity; archives; aromantic; capitalism; jealousy; love; monogamy; political theory; politics; primary source; queer; romantic; social construct; trans
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
Zach Schudson, Sari van Anders'You have to coin new things': sexual and gender identity discourses in asexual, queer, and/or trans young people's networked counterpublics2019asexual; bisexual; categorization; community-building; definitions; gender; identity; nonbinary; online community; romantic; self-identification; trans
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
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
Matt Dawson, Susie Scott, Liz McDonnellNegotiating the boundaries of intimacy: the personal lives of asexual people2016aromantic; friendship; identity; intimacy; narrative; passing; psychology; qualitative methods; relationships; romantic; social construct; sociology; split attraction
Melissa E. SanchezAntisocial Procreation in Measure for Measure2017asexual; asexual reading/theory; early modern; gender; literary analysis/theory; literature; new materialism; pregnancy; queer; queer theory; reproduction; reproductive futurity; Shakespeare
Michael CobbSingle: Arguments for the Uncoupled2012art; art history; capitalism; death; gender; LGBTQ; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; monogamy; nonmonogamy; philosophy; political theory; queer; romantic; single; social construct; theory; TV
Tiina VaresAsexuals negotiate the 'onslaught of the heteronormative'2021amatonormativity; asexual; community; New Zealand; politics; qualitative methods; queer; queer theory; romantic; sexusociety; single; split attraction
Evelyn ElgieBeing and Doing: Interrogating Dominant Narratives of Asexual Kinship in an Amatonormative Culture2017amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; colonialism; identity; indigenous; intersectionality; intimacy; kinship; nonmonogamy; nonsexual; online community; queer theory; queerplatonic; romantic; social construct; sociology; split attraction; theory
Maria Bulmer, Keise IzumaImplicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Sex and Romance in Asexuals2017aromantic; asexual; AVEN; community; definitions; intimacy; psychology; quantitative methods; romantic; self-identification; social construct; split attraction
CJ Deluzio ChasinMaking Sense in and of the Asexual Community: Navigating Relationships and Identities in a Context of Resistance2015aphobia; asexual; AVEN; community; definitions; discrimination; friendship; gender; HSDD; intersectionality; LGBTQ; psychology; split attraction; trans
CJ ChasinAsexuality and the Re/Construction of Sexual Orientation2019aromantic; asexual; categorization; compulsory sexuality; definitions; gender; identity; LGBTQ; neoliberal; pathologization; queerplatonic; repulsion/aversion; romantic; split attraction
Aasha Brianna FosterMeasuring Social Invisibility and Erasure: Development of the Asexual Microaggressions Scale2018asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; compulsory sexuality; definitions; desexualization; disability; discrimination; HSDD; interdisciplinary; intersectionality; LGBTQ; mental illness; pathologization; psychology; race; romantic; split attraction; visibility
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
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
Adrienne ColborneChasing Aces: Asexuality, Misinformation and Challenges of Identity2018asexual; asexual continuum; categorization; community; HSDD; identity; LGBTQ; pathologization; queer; romantic; self-identification; split attraction; trauma; visibility