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.

  1. Select the tags you are interested in the advanced filters such as affect, adolescence. Tags were manually assigned by our research team to each resource to ensure they are relevant.
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AuthorsTitleYearTags
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
Matthew WilliamsCold Heart: An Exploration of Aromanticism in Lucy2018amatonormativity; aromantic; friendship; literary analysis/theory; literature; love; platonic
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
Michael H. JamesonThe Asexuality of Dionysus2014art; art history; bisexual; classical; gender; gender fluidity; literary analysis/theory; literature; mythology
Theodora A. JankowskiPure Resistance: Queer Virginity in Early Modern English Drama2000early modern; gender; medieval; nonsexual; protestant; queer; queer theory; religion; virginity
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
Eunjung KimCuring Virginity2017asexual; corrective assault; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; nonsexual; pathologization; queer; sexual violence; virginity
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 PrzybyloAsexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality2019asexual
Liza BlakeDildos and Accessories: The Functions of Early Modern Strap-Ons2011early modern; fetish; gender; nonhuman; queer theory
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
Benjamin KahanCelibacies: American Modernism & Sexual Life2013asexual; Black; Boston Marriage; celibacy; friendship; gender; marriage; philosophy; queer; race; religion; spinster
Melanie YergauAuthoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness2018a-fluidity; asexual; asexual reading/theory; autism; demisexuality; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; gender; gender fluidity; gray-asexuality; neurodivergent; nonbinary; orientation; queer; queer theory; reproduction; split attraction; squish
Madison McGillAromanticism never felt like a real option, and that’s not my fault2023amatonormativity; aromantic; media; relationships; representation