Where is there evidence of Feminism in The Scarlet Letter?

As the
other answer states, feminism as we understand it today was not a part of Hawthorne's worldview
in this novelset in the seventeenth-century Puritan worldbut strong glimmers of feminism
nevertheless shine through.

First, , a woman, is by far the strongest of the
mainof the novel. She faces up to her "crime" of adultery. She does not run away from
Salem to start life in a new place, as she could have done. She bears her shame openly and
bravely. Ultimately she redeems her scarlet letter through her modest life and good works,
turning it into a badge of honor by...