Queer(y)ing Leadership

Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding and Mark Learmonth

Chapter 5 in Leadership as Identity, 2008, pp 91-115 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Turning now to a more critical analysis of leadership, in the first two chapters in this section we will focus on theories arising from gender studies to articulate our concerns. Chapter 6 will explore leadership using perspectives from feminism and men and masculinities. In that chapter we will explore how leaders have to take on feminine characteristics, while management requires that they take on masculine characteristics. We will suggest that leadership creates huge anxieties for managers as it puts them in the contradictory position of having to be both masculine and feminine at one and the same time, so whatever they do is unacceptable. In this chapter we will establish the setting for that argument by using queer theory to show that leadership is normative in that it provides a vision of ‘the normal’, which leaders have to attain. We will show that attaining the norm of leadership is impossible.

Keywords: Human Resource Management; Transformational Leadership; Personal Quality; Multinational Company; Leadership Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230584181_5

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