Introduction: Contemporary Challenges to Feminist Advocacy

Jenéa is co-founder and chief co-editor of /thirdspace/. She is currently an instructor in History at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Her PhD focused on defining marital status as a category of analysis for women's history, through the lens of single women in British Columbia from 1880-1930. She is also the web administrator for the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality (http://www.cha-shc.ca/cchs/) and the founder of the Scholars of Single Women Network (www.medusanet.ca/singlewomen/). Her research interests include feminist theory, gender history, history of Whiteness and colonialism, and auto/biography.