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This article proposes to discuss and to problematize the formation of gender relations, in a Gypsy community living in a low-income housing neighborhood on the outskirts of Oporto, in the north of Portugal. The data collected using an ethnological approach in the course of a two-years fieldwork, reveal the power relationships between the sexes and the gendered exercise of citizenship that are experienced in specific socio-geographic-cultural contexts, i.e. in the family and in the community. In each of these contexts, gender relations combine a form of subordinating subordination with of form of subordinate domination. These forms of domination are captured through their structural determinants, as well as through the actions and the subjectivities of the various agents who hold a dual status of citizens and of members of a specific socio-cultural group.