The purpose of this research was to examine the complexity of rural womens oppression. The study was conducted with rural women who were active members of voluntary organizations within the Town of Renfrew, Ontario. Using a semi-structured interview approach, I focused on their personal values, beliefs and practices. In contrast to earlier approaches that constructed all rural women as static and oppressed on the basis that they are all subject to rural patriarchal relations, I argue that rural women are active agents in the construction and maintenance of configurations of power relations that unevenly impact on all rural women. Patriarchal relations and class formations are thus, reflective of differences that exist among women, and are dependent on human action, negotiation and struggle. I further argue, from a post-structural perspective, that because spatiality and discourse are fluid and changing, power relations are also subject to transformation.