Abstract :
During the last two decades, the life of women behind the veil in Arabian
Peninsula has been faithfully, graphically and vividly presented by many female
writers, like Taslima Nasreen, Tehmina Durrani, Latifa, and American Jean
Sasson. Immaculately, Jean Sasson has caught the very breath and nerve of
women behind the veil in the Middle Eastern region where women are treated as
mere possessions, objects of desire, and the basic human rights to women are a
still a dream. The focus of this paper is to highlight the self-image, self-esteem
and adjustment phases of women victims in Jean Sasson’s works. As the voice of
the Middle-East women, Jean Sasson has graphically, vividly and realistically
portrayed the odyssey of women aspiring for self-image and self-esteem leading
them to an independent life as women in other regions of the world is leading.
Jean Sasson’s heroines are not given their due share of self-esteem, yet they
achieve a sense of adequacy, self-worth and self-expectations which are
inextricably tied with how they performed their varied roles within their families
and outside their families. Heroines in Jean Sasson’s novels make a sincere effort
to achieve their sense of freedom and equality with men at last by acquiring selfimage
and self-respect in their respective societies.
