ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on women’s activism in Pueblonuevo, most of which was filtered through the Church and church-related concerns. The chapter centers on the fundraising campaign undertaken by the religious sisterhood at Santa Barbara, the Daughters of Mary, to rebuild the collapsing old chapel. This effort, though successful, spotlights the ways in which activist women had to negotiate the class presumption of elite ladies as well as the antifeminism voiced by both secular and religious opponents.
