Introduction: keeping women in their place
A legacy of containment
Enclosed bodies, trapped voices, framed images: the poetics of sex segregation
The bonds of beauty: immobilizing the ideal woman in Iranian literature
Pardeh Neshin, or "she who sits behind the screen": the spatial politics of Iranian cinema
Wings and words
Badasht and Seneca Falls: Tahirih Qurratul'Ayn and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Icarus reborn: captivity and flight in the work of Forugh Farrokhzad
The gypsy poet: fluidity and flux in the poetry of Simin Behbahani
Women on the road: Shahrnush Parsipur and the conference of female birds
Prisoners awaiting liberation
Reading and misreading Iranian women in the United States: on abducted daughters, incarcerated girls, and invisible women
Epilogue: words as ambassadors of peace and beacons of hope.