ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Saudi women leaders’ narratives of resistance are explored. Resistance is understood as situated within ethical, religious, and political conditions. The women's narratives of resistance include the following points: (1) The body as a site of resistance, (2) structural power and resistance, (3) bending organizational rules and playing the game, (4) persistence as resistance, (5) strategic silence as resistance, and (6) self-reflection as resistance. The women also employed the discourse of the nation as a strategy to legitimize their presence within their leadership roles. Therefore, resistance as illustrated in the women's narratives is not a radical rupture to organizational norms, but are subtle forms of subversion, which undermine gender power relations, and are effective, nonetheless.
