In the public and private spaces of Malaysia's capitalist cities, Malay women abide by a stricter Islamic dress code than they do in rural areas. Hence, in this local context, spatial public/private and ‘placial’ rural/urban order are of importance for gender identifications and practices. These orders imply influences on gendered forms of embodiment in the form of dress codes. This research examines the sociocultural constitutions of space and place in Malaysia regarding their relatedness to one another. The central argument states (1) that public space in Muslim contexts is defined as a social space in which men and women who are eligible to marry (non‐mahram) encounter each other; and (2) that these relations are perceived and practised differently in urban and rural public and private spaces. This implies that the public‐private divide is based significantly on gendered kinship relations: that is, concepts of family.

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重新配置性别、亲属关系和灵性：穆斯林马来西亚的空间和场所营造


在马来西亚资本主义城市的公共和私人空间，马来妇女比农村地区遵守更严格的伊斯兰着装规范。因此，在这种地方背景下，空间公共/私人和“地方”农村/城市秩序对于性别认同和实践非常重要。这些秩序意味着对着装规范形式的性别体现形式的影响。这项研究探讨了马来西亚空间和地点的社会文化构成以及它们之间的相关性。中心论点指出（1）穆斯林环境中的公共空间被定义为有资格结婚的男性和女性（非穆斯林）相遇的社会空间； (2) 这些关系在城乡公共和私人空间中的认知和实践方式不同。这意味着公私分歧很大程度上基于性别亲属关系：即家庭概念。