Why the narrator uses the word "mujercillas" instead of "mujeres (women)"
the end segment -cillas is a diminutive, in this context, this diminutive is used to say that those women are not "women enough" because they liked "non-clerical things", "being seen by others" and things that he tinked were "bad" for women in the time (things that a "lady" do not do).
"La usa para decir que esas mujeres no son"suficientemente mujer" porque hacian cosas que el consideraba que no eran para una "dama""
How are the students in your Spanish class? Use the description of Alejandro in Activity 7, This is how Alejandro's classmates are, as a model and write five or six sentences to describe your classmates