This chapter tackles the articulation Ireland forges between gender and spatiality. In the earlier realist texts, such as The Glass Canoe and The Chantic Bird, Ireland’s female characters find themselves encoded along the lines of the (in)famous “damned whores” and “God’s police” stereotypes Summers situated at the heart of capitalist patriarchy in Australia. As such, they are subjected to a crushing spatial confinement, exiled from the capitalist production process, spaces of male working-class reproduction and the public sphere more broadly. However, this more-or-less realistic depiction of the nature of post-World War II gender relations in Australia is radically subverted in A Woman of the Future and City of Women. In these magical realist texts, Ireland creates a space within which a liberal feminist ideology can work itself out, tightly allied to the question of the nation. Whilst productive of radical insights into the nature of gender and abstract space, we will see that Ireland leaves us sceptical that anything less than a challenging of the capitalist mode of production can durably alter the landscape of patriarchy and the gendered dualisms in which it traffics.