ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on sources, including auto-ethnography, subject and departmental histories, archive materials, obituaries and acknowledgements, to explore relational networks within Western feminist geography from its inception. Through analysis of historical and contemporary networks, it highlights the role of informal and formal networks, peer support and the particular role of senior people in shaping the gendered composition of the geographical academy and attitudes to scholarship on gender. It highlights how feminist networks within geography have evolved and how networks of support by peers and senior colleagues are crucial to retaining women in academia towards permanent contracts/tenure and influence within the discipline.
