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Discusses the criminalization of domestic violence from the rural pueblo of Namiquipa, Chihuahua, Mexico during the late nineteenth century. Comparison between the severity and frequency of abuse among Hispanic and Anglo women; Factors associated with the criminalization of domestic violence; Facets of the liberal revolutions' secularization of the management of reproduction and extension of the rationalizing reach of the modernizing Mexican state into the domestic domain; Details of the contradictions and ambiguities of gender ideology.