Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms

Introduction: Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms in the 2020s - Yo-Ling Chen and Ela Przybyło

Part I: Ace and Aro Critiques of the Nation and Citizenship

1. Asexual Nationalism and the Indian Cinematic Imaginary: Heroic Motherhood and Chaste Womanhood in Mother India (1957) and Sati (1989) - Malavika and Bibhuti Mary Kacchap

2. Japanese Aromantic-Asexual Visual Media and the Crumbling Hetero-Allosexual Nation - Nemo Madeleine Sugimoto Martin

3. Beyond Landscapes of Allonormativity?: Imagining Ace Liveabilities in Ireland - Rachel Bayer

4. Asexual Outlaws: AsexArab and the Limits of Sexual Citizenship - Kari Barclay

Part II: Aspec Historicities

5. Anarchival Asexualities: Queer Historiography of Events and Nonevents in Early Colonial and Postcolonial Philippines - Gregorio R. Caliguia, III

6. Historicizing Non-Desire: An Asexual Critique of Adolescent Sexuality in the Late Ottoman Empire - Tuğçe Kayaal

7. “Where Is Your Man?:” The Life History of an Asexual Romanian Woman, Unapologetic, Unmarried, and Unbroken - Cringuta Irina Pelea

Part III: Characterizing Aspec Communities

8. Contextualizing the Demography of Asexualities and Aromanticisms: Global-Local Negotiations in a Japanese Context - Daiki Hiramori and Daijiro Miyake

9. Asexuality, Gender Diversity, and the Interpretation of Sexual Attraction: Psychometric and Qualitative Perspectives from the Polish Adaptation of the Asexuality Identification Scale (AIS-12) - Wojciech Łukasz Dragan, Anna Niemczyk, and Monika Folkierska-Żukowska

Part IV: Critiquing Compulsory Sexuality and Romance

10. Fail Again, Fail Better: Reconsidering Amatonormativity Post India’s “Failed” Marriage Equality Judgment - Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen

11. Home Beyond Allonormativity: Aroace Activism, Law, and Resistance in Mexico - Anahí Charles, Donají Portillo, and Adrián Ramírez

12. Does Japan Have No Future? Compulsory Allosexuality and Asexual Experiences in Koi senu futari (2022) and Sobakasu (2022) - Letizia Guarini

Part V: Aspec Loves and Intimacies

13. ऐसा कैसा प्यार? Asexual Intimacies and the Resistive Erotics of Relating in Desi Asexual Discourses Online - Yash Gupta

14. “Un-Love-able Aliens:” Gender-Expansive Asexual and Aromantic Embodiments in Hong Kong - Tak-Yin Yumi Wong

15. Pragmatic Ambiguities: Searching for Ambiguous A/ro-A/ce Temporalities in Singapore - Ming Wei Ang

Part VI: Aspec Decolonial and Anticolonial Critiques

16. Loosening the Romantic Grip: The Aromantic Turn to Decolonial Love - Michael Paramo

17. The Beast and the Nation: Animist Asexuality, Reproductive Nationalism, and Decolonial Asexualization in Nigerian Cinema - Omotayo Jemiluyi

18. Decolonial Asexualities: Asexuality, Desexualization, and the Human in Türkiye amidst Feminism, Kemalism, Political Islam, and the Kurdish Movement - Ayşegül Şah Bozdoğan Iles

Part VII: Expanding Aspec Coalitions

19. Marginalization and Belonging: Asexuality within Japan’s Trans Communities in the 1990s to 2010s - Kyoko Takeuchi

20. Ace-ing Disabilities: A Dialogue on Navigating Invisiblization and Finding Affirmative Spaces - Sweta Sry Duddugunta and Ritash

21. Killing the Race: Coalitional Intersections of Reproductive Justice and Sexual Agency within Black and Latina Asexualities - Maralyn Doering and Brittney Miles

Part VIII: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Monasticism

22. Is the Buddha Ace and Aro? Asexuality and Aromanticism in Buddhist Soteriology - Deng-Rong Shi

23. Celibate Sovereignties: Asexual Agency and Monastic Subjectivity in Himalayan Nunneries - Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi

Part VIV: Feminist Refusals and Aspec Politics

24. No-CP, Chinese Webnovels, and Aromantic/Asexual Resonance Beyond Identity - Miqi Liu and Peng Qiao

25. Where Feminism Meets Asexuality: Asexual Identifications in South Korea - Yun-Hee Cho

26. 6B4T in China: Marriage Refusal, Radical Feminisms, and Resonances with Asexuality - Qiqi Huang

Part X: Manifesting Otherwise

27. Fictosexual Manifesto: The Queer Politics of Animation - Kifumi Hsi-Wen Liao and Yuu Matsuura

28. The Quoiromantic Manifesto: “Romantic Attraction” Doesn’t Make Sense! - Kasumi Nakamura and Amanda Goehring

29. Durga and Other Poems - Aria Pahari

Biography

Yo-Ling Chen (they/them) is an independent scholar and activist based on Taipei. Their research has been published in the journals Current History (2025) and Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories (2024), as well as the edited volumes Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition (2024) and On Transnational Anti-Gender/LGBTQ+ Movements: Bridging European and Asian Experience (forthcoming). As an activist, they are involved in transgender, nonbinary, asexual, and aromantic advocacy work locally in Taiwan and regionally across Asia. They are also a contributing editor at New Bloom Magazine and lead convener of the Transpacific Taiwan Transgender Studies Research Collective (2024–2027). 

Ela Przybyło (she/they) is an Associate Professor in English and Core Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Illinois State University. They are the author of Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality (2019) and Ungendering Menstruation (2025), as well as an editor of On the Politics of Ugliness (2018). She is also a founding and managing editor of the intersectional, independent, peer-reviewed, open access journal Feral Feminisms.