Chapter 1. Background on Nathaniel Hawthorne
1. The Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Hawthorne's Family's Impact on His Fiction
3. The Hawthorne-Fuller Friendship
Chapter 2. The Scarlet Letter and Women's Issues
1. Hester and Feminists of the 1840s
2. A Mixture of Feminism and Misogyny
3. Puritans and Feminists
5. Woman Identified with the Marginalized Artist
7. Living Against Nature in Puritan New England
9. Leadership and Delicacy
10. Hawthorne Lets the Patriarchs Win
Chapter 3. Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Issues
3. Still Quiet and Submissive
4. "GodMen" in a Defeminized Church
5. Hester's Powerful Progeny
