Recent transformations in gender relations strongly question the territorial organisation of urban society. Inner city neighbourhoods occupy a specific place in the remodeling of the relations between the sphere of private life and the sphere of nondomestic work. Intensive urban struggles have taken place in these neighbourhoods over the last years, notably because of their centrality. They appear both as key territories for the emerging women's social movement and as spaces from which they are in constant danger of being evicted. These themes are illustrated with reference to Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Vieux-Québec, the two neighbourhoods at the centre of Upper Québec City.