What are Hester's views concerning womanhood? How does Hester identify herself as a woman?

dbello's
answer covers most of the ground, but I have another view of her last comment, that her
"sin" was her freedom. was "free" before her sin; she had an open attitude
toward life that allowed her to see her failing as a violation of civil law but not a violation
of her internal law.  After her sin, she was clearly less free; there were places she could not
go, she had, at least temporarily, lost the respect of her fellow citizens, she had to raise