Becoming an ‘Autistic Couple’: Narratives of Sexuality and Couplehood Within the Swedish Autistic Self-advocacy Movement

This publication is included in the Autistic Autism Scholarship Project. one author of this publication is identified as autistic in the project.

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Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H. (2013). Becoming an ‘Autistic Couple’: Narratives of Sexuality and Couplehood Within the Swedish Autistic Self-advocacy Movement. Sexuality and Disability, 32(3), 351-363. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-013-9336-2

Journal or book title
Sexuality and Disability
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
32
Issue
3
Pages
351-363
Publication date: 12 Dec 2013 Added to AutiHub: 4 Jul 2026 Type: Article Article language: English

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Authors

Publication authors
1
Publication authors identified as autistic
1 / 1 (100.0%)

Abstract

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Bibliography cited by this reference

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Cited bibliography overview

These indicators describe the bibliography cited by this publication. An author name is counted each time it appears in one cited reference, so the same person can be counted more than once. Names not yet linked to an author already present in AutiHub are treated as unknown, not as non-autistic. Last computed: 3 Oct 2026 01:00.

Cited references
27
With a DOI
23
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
3
1 / 27 (3.7%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
0 / 27 (0.0%)
References with detected author names
27 / 27 (100.0%)
Without detected author names
0
Without a structured title
0
Without a stable identifier
1
References with raw author names still to review
0
References with external metadata lookup issues
0
These indicators apply to cited references displayed on this page, after technical duplicates have been merged. A reference without a DOI can still support author statistics when a title and author names are available.
Author names detected in the cited bibliography
49
From DOI or external metadata
49
From validated raw bibliography text
0
Raw names already validated
0
Raw names still to review
0
9 / 49 (18.4%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 40 / 49 (81.6%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
1 / 49 (2.0%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 1 / 9 (11.1%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 1 / 46 (2.2%).
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