Farzaneh Milani is Associate Professor of Persian and Women's Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Veils and Words (Syracuse University Press, 1992), A Fist Full of Stars: The Poetry of Simin Behbahani (with Kaveh Safa), and several articles and book chapters in Persian and English. Currently she is working on a book, tentatively titled, From Cinderella to Barbie: Women and Mobility From a Cross-Cultural Perspective. Milani is the past President of the Association of Middle Eastern Women's Studies.