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Intergroup leadership can benefit from a more thorough understanding of the role of contextual factors in intergroup dynamics. So says the author who argues that leadership literature has given disproportionate attention to the role of the leader, and more recently to the role of follower, but less work has been done on the context of leadership. In this chapter, she uses the nascent women's movement in Saudi Arabia as a case study to examine how context, as represented by economic, political, and social factors, is an important dimension in understanding intergroup leadership. This chapter is excerpted from ‘Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference'.