<p>Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (New York: New American Library, 1959). All other references to the novel will be made by page number only; this citation procedure will be followed throughout the chapter for all novels.</p>

<p>Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in De Foe, Richardson, and Fielding (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959).</p>

<p>Irvin L. Child, Elmer H. Potter, and Estelle M. Levme, »Children's Textbooks and Personality Development: An Exploration in the Social Psychology of Education«, in Judy F. Rosenblith and Wesley Allinsmith, eds., Causes of Behavior Readings in Child Development and Educational Psychology (Rockleigh. N.J.: llyn, 1960).</p>

<p>Ti-Grace Atkinson, »The Institution of Sexual Intercourse« in Firestone and Koedt, op. cit., p. 44.</p>

<p>Koedt, op. cit., p. 38.</p>

<p>Donald W. Hastings, »Can Specific Training Procedures Overcome Sexual Inadequacy?« in Brecher and Brecher, op. cit., p. 232.</p>

<p>Masters and Johnson, Human Sexual Inadequacy, p. 93.</p>

<p>Ibid.</p>

<p>Leslie H. Farber, »I'm Sorry, Dear« in Brecher and Brecher, op. cit., p. 310. Italics added.</p>

<p>Ann Koedt, »The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm« in Shulamith Firestone and Ann Koedt, eds., Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation (New York, 1970), p. 39.</p>