Policy Press

Redeeming Leadership

An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention

By Helena Liu

Published

Jul 14, 2021

Page count

216 pages

ISBN

978-1529200065

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Jan 8, 2020

Page count

216 pages

ISBN

978-1529200041

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Jan 8, 2020

Page count

216 pages

ISBN

978-1529200072

Dimensions

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Jan 8, 2020

Page count

216 pages

ISBN

978-1529200072

Dimensions

Imprint

Bristol University Press
Redeeming Leadership

Now available in paperback with a new preface and foreword by Stella Nkomo.

How might imperialist, masculinist and white supremacist grips on leadership be loosened? In this thought-provoking and accessible new study, Helena Liu suggests that anti-racist feminism can challenge conventional models and practices of power.

Combining a critical review of leadership theory with enlightening examples from around the world, the book shows how the intellectual and activist elements of feminist movements provide antidotes to contemporary leadership research and practice. For those interested in management, organisation, feminism, race and many more studies, it sets the agenda for a radical reimagining of control and leadership in all its forms.

Helena Liu is Senior Lecturer at UTS Business School, Australia. Central to her work is the critique of how imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy sustain our enduring romance with leadership.

Introduction

Part I: The Violences of Leadership

Dominance

Purity

Destruction

Salvation

Part II: Anti- Racist Feminist Redemption

Anti-Racist Feminisms

Undoing Leadership

White Allyship

Restoration