Contents Preface Note on Transliteration, Dates and Translation of Persian Poetry Introduction: Women and Their Mirrors chapter 1 - Mirroring in Mythology and Psychology "I am That!": Doubling in the Myth of Narcissus and Echo The Petrifying Look: The Myth of Medusa From Narcissus to Narcissism: Freud's Psychological Exegesis of the Myth The Subject as an Alienated Construct: Lacan's Theory of the Mirror Stage A Spatiotemporal Site of Psychological Interiority: Memory as a Mirror Mother-Daughter: The Mutual Mirroring Mirroring in Text chapter 2 - Mirror Imagery in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad A Herstory of a Subject-in-Process Captive to the Male Gaze The Mirror as an Eye The Mirror of the Heart The Otherness of the Self-image The Mirror of the Memory and of the Imagination The Grotesquery of the Mirror Image The Mirror and the Window Mother-Daughter Reciprocity in the Mirror The Emancipated and Emancipating Mirror Self-Mirroring in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad chapter 3 - Mirror Imagery in the Works of Sylvia Plath The Mirror as the Intersection of Academic and Artistic Talent The Mirror as a Weapon of the Femme Fatale The Childless Woman: A Narcissist The Gigolo: Male Narcissism Woman as a Mirror of Male Ego Mother in the Mirror The Monstrous Degeneration Lurking in the Mirror The Promising Mirror Child as a Mirror The Mirror Image Being Identical with the Self The Appalling Otherness of the Specular Self Conclusion Appendix: Farrokhzad's Poems Discussed in the Text with Their English Translation Notes Bibliography Index.