Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Building Women, Building Cities: Toward Gender Sensitive Theory in the Environmental Disciplines -- 2 Women Workers and the Inner City: Some Implications of Labour Force Restructuring in Montreal, 1971-81 -- 3 Practical Idealism: Women in Urban Reform, Julia Drummond and the Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association -- 4 Divergent Convergence: The Daily Routines of Employed Spouses as a Public Affairs Agenda -- 5 Canadian Women's Housing Cooperatives: Case Studies in Physical and Social Innovation -- 6 New Families, New Housing Needs, New Urban Environments: The Case of Single-Parent Families -- 7 Interacting with the Urban Environment: Two Case Studies of Women's and Female Adolescents' Leisure Activities -- 8 Gender-specific Approaches to Theory and Method -- Annotated Bibliography.