If you've read The Scarlet Letter or have experience with dialectical journals, would you help?

You're putting the cart before the horse here. You have to read the book first. One of the gender issues is that the main character, Hester Prynne, is punished for becoming pregnant during an affair with a married man. All the censure falls upon her head as the fallen woman, while he suffers little consequence and doesn't come to her defense. (He's also the minister, so religion factors in