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Abstract
This thesis explores the common life reforms as they were imposed in Santiago, Chile in the mid-nineteenth century. It focuses on sources found in the archives for the Monasterio de Santa Rosa de Lima and the Clarisas de la Antigua Fundación. It explores how women's roles were changing under the new structures of the Republican government and how the nuns in the convents were affected by these shifting expectations. It concludes that as motherhood became more useful to the state and church, the prestige that nuns formerly held in society diminished.