Jessica D Fields
Biographic Data
| ID | 10423181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica D Fields |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica D |
| FAMILY NAME | Fields |
| SIGNATURE | FIELDS J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1131-6329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond the Shell of Home
Drawing on empirical and theoretical traditions that approach people's movement through spaces as stories about culture and possibility, this article considers how the conditions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic rigidified societal institutions — such as the home and the relations it envelops — and articulates “queer roaming” as an integral method of queer ontologies of mobility. The authors’ analysis of interviews conducted during the pandemi…
Health Care Access and Use Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness
This cross-sectional study found that adults experiencing homelessness reported poor access to ambulatory care and a high prevalence of short-term care use, despite high rates of insurance. Changes in homelessness during the past 30 years were associated with worsened health care access and use
The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords of 2020 represented new political dynamics in Middle Eastern diplomacy, as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan normalized relations with Israel without demanding a path toward Palestinian statehood. In the short term, the accords increased trade and cooperation on technology, but the larger security project of containing Iran remained a mission unaccomplished. Still, President Joe Biden, until his last days i…
Google Street View-Derived Neighborhood Characteristics in California Associated with Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Diabetes
Characteristics of the neighborhood built environment influence health and health behavior. Google Street View (GSV) images may facilitate measures of the neighborhood environment that are meaningful, practical, and adaptable to any geographic boundary. We used GSV images and computer vision to characterize neighborhood environments (green streets, visible utility wires, and dilapidated buildings) and examined cross-sectional associations with ch…
Renewed commitments in a time of vigilance
Over the past 20 years, the USA has seen more than its fair share of controversy with respect to education about sexuality, sex and intimate relationships. Attention has focused on content (abstinence-only vs. comprehensive instruction), delivery (by teachers, parents, health professionals or community educators) and context (within school and beyond). In recognition of this fact, Sex Education invited the development of a virtual special issue c…
Financial and Hierarchy Maintenance
The Racialized Erotics of Participatory Research
At the intersections of empirical research, queer theory, and women of color feminism, I explore the place of racialized, gendered, and sexualized erotics in participatory action research (PAR). Focusing on my own erotic experience of a PAR study of intimacy, HIV/AIDS, and systemic violence and regulation, I argue for queer feminist PAR that refuses to cast failures, flirtations, and misreadings as obstacles to understanding. Queer feminist PAR i…
Striving for empathy
Peer sexuality educators' accounts of their work reveal two approaches to empathy with their students: affinity and alliance. ‘Affinity-based empathy’ rests on the idea that the more commonalities sexuality educators and students share (or perceive they share), the more they will be able to empathise with one another, while ‘alliance-based empathy’ is an analytical process of considering the social contexts that shape others' lives. We assess the…
Feminist Ethnography
Learning from and with incarcerated women
Risky business
Culling the cousins
Kin selection, an aspect of evolutionary theory, argues that, all else equal, individuals should give preferential treatment to relatives, based on the degree of relatedness [Hamilton, W. D. (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour I, II. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1–52.]. However, one may observe instances where competition for scarce or unique resources is stronger between family members than between unrelated individuals. Su…
Children Having Children
This feminist ethnographic study considers the rhetoric of “children having children” in debates over school-based sexuality education, a rhetoric that is universalizing but racialized and gendered. I use participant observation and interview data I collected in a North Carolina school system that serves a predominantly African American, low-income student population. I explore educators', activists', and policymakers' responses to state legislat…
Children Having Children
This feminist ethnographic study considers the rhetoric of “children having children” in debates over school-based sexuality education, a rhetoric that is universalizing but racialized and gendered. I use participant observation and interview data I collected in a North Carolina school system that serves a predominantly African American, low-income student population. I explore educators', activists', and policymakers' responses to state legislat…
Risky business
Feminist Ethnography
The Racialized Erotics of Participatory Research
At the intersections of empirical research, queer theory, and women of color feminism, I explore the place of racialized, gendered, and sexualized erotics in participatory action research (PAR). Focusing on my own erotic experience of a PAR study of intimacy, HIV/AIDS, and systemic violence and regulation, I argue for queer feminist PAR that refuses to cast failures, flirtations, and misreadings as obstacles to understanding. Queer feminist PAR i…
Learning from and with incarcerated women
The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords of 2020 represented new political dynamics in Middle Eastern diplomacy, as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan normalized relations with Israel without demanding a path toward Palestinian statehood. In the short term, the accords increased trade and cooperation on technology, but the larger security project of containing Iran remained a mission unaccomplished. Still, President Joe Biden, until his last days i…
Children Having Children
This feminist ethnographic study considers the rhetoric of “children having children” in debates over school-based sexuality education, a rhetoric that is universalizing but racialized and gendered. I use participant observation and interview data I collected in a North Carolina school system that serves a predominantly African American, low-income student population. I explore educators', activists', and policymakers' responses to state legislat…
Risky business
Culling the cousins
Kin selection, an aspect of evolutionary theory, argues that, all else equal, individuals should give preferential treatment to relatives, based on the degree of relatedness [Hamilton, W. D. (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour I, II. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1–52.]. However, one may observe instances where competition for scarce or unique resources is stronger between family members than between unrelated individuals. Su…
Learning from and with incarcerated women
Feminist Ethnography
Striving for empathy
Peer sexuality educators' accounts of their work reveal two approaches to empathy with their students: affinity and alliance. ‘Affinity-based empathy’ rests on the idea that the more commonalities sexuality educators and students share (or perceive they share), the more they will be able to empathise with one another, while ‘alliance-based empathy’ is an analytical process of considering the social contexts that shape others' lives. We assess the…
Financial and Hierarchy Maintenance
The Racialized Erotics of Participatory Research
At the intersections of empirical research, queer theory, and women of color feminism, I explore the place of racialized, gendered, and sexualized erotics in participatory action research (PAR). Focusing on my own erotic experience of a PAR study of intimacy, HIV/AIDS, and systemic violence and regulation, I argue for queer feminist PAR that refuses to cast failures, flirtations, and misreadings as obstacles to understanding. Queer feminist PAR i…
Renewed commitments in a time of vigilance
Over the past 20 years, the USA has seen more than its fair share of controversy with respect to education about sexuality, sex and intimate relationships. Attention has focused on content (abstinence-only vs. comprehensive instruction), delivery (by teachers, parents, health professionals or community educators) and context (within school and beyond). In recognition of this fact, Sex Education invited the development of a virtual special issue c…
Google Street View-Derived Neighborhood Characteristics in California Associated with Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, Diabetes
Characteristics of the neighborhood built environment influence health and health behavior. Google Street View (GSV) images may facilitate measures of the neighborhood environment that are meaningful, practical, and adaptable to any geographic boundary. We used GSV images and computer vision to characterize neighborhood environments (green streets, visible utility wires, and dilapidated buildings) and examined cross-sectional associations with ch…
Health Care Access and Use Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness
This cross-sectional study found that adults experiencing homelessness reported poor access to ambulatory care and a high prevalence of short-term care use, despite high rates of insurance. Changes in homelessness during the past 30 years were associated with worsened health care access and use
The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords of 2020 represented new political dynamics in Middle Eastern diplomacy, as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan normalized relations with Israel without demanding a path toward Palestinian statehood. In the short term, the accords increased trade and cooperation on technology, but the larger security project of containing Iran remained a mission unaccomplished. Still, President Joe Biden, until his last days i…
Beyond the Shell of Home
Drawing on empirical and theoretical traditions that approach people's movement through spaces as stories about culture and possibility, this article considers how the conditions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic rigidified societal institutions — such as the home and the relations it envelops — and articulates “queer roaming” as an integral method of queer ontologies of mobility. The authors’ analysis of interviews conducted during the pandemi…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Demography (3 works)