ABSTRACT
The mainstream literature has produced two competing models of leadership, based almost exclusively on studies of White women and men. However they are presented as race neutral and assumed generalized to all people (Parker & ogilvie, 1996). This chapter presents a review and critique of the predominant visions of leadership based on these models and advances an inclusive critical feminist framework for studying race, gender, and leadership. Critical communication and feminist perspectives distinguish leadership from the view of leadership as “good management” that pervades the mainstream literature (Rost, 1991). Also, it directs attention away from structural-functionalist views toward the constitutive processes of leadership (e.g., how leaders and followers do leadership) that occur within raced-and gendered-organizing contexts.
