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This collection discusses the depictions of mothers-in-law in popular culture and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law.
List of contents
Foreword by Josephine May
Preface by Jo Parnell
Part 1: The Mothers-in-Law of the Future
1A Cultural Appraisal of the Significance of the Role of the Mother-in-Law Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
Cecilia Alero Titilayo Saibu
2Mother-in-Law Soap Opera: Redefining the Mother-in-Law, Redesigning the Kenyan Nation
Wafula David Yenjela
3 Oppressor or Oppressed: The M(other) - in-Law in Nigerian Women's Literature
Shalini Nadaswaran
4Stereotyped Representations of the Black Mother-In-Law in Reality Television Shows: A Critical Analysis
Marquita Gammage
Part II: Foundational Mothers-in-Law
5The Mother-in-Law in Latin Literature and Roman Society
Jane Bellemore and Terry Ryan
6Exclusive Intimacies: Creating Mothers-in-Law in Japanese Literature and Film
Miglena (Maggie) Ivanova
7Ogresses, Queens and Wicked Fairies: Fairy-tale Mothers-in-Law from Charles Perrault to Shrek and Once Upon a Time
Lydia Brugué Botia and Auba Llompart Pons
8Cold Springs: Cinematic Portraits of Sara Roosevelt
Andrew Howe
Part III: Entertaining Mothers-in-Law
9The Evil Dame in British Horror Film: Domestic Nightmare and Change of Times of in Fanatic and Persecution
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, and Leonardo Acosta Lando and Diego Foronda
10"The Worst Person I Know": Representations of the Mother-in-Law in British Popular Entertainment
Martina Lipton
11Dorothy Cannell's How to Murder your Mother-in-Law: Women, Sisterhood and Feminism
Zoly Rakotoniera
Afterword by Hugh Craig
About the author
Edited by Jo Parnell - Contributions by Cecilia Alero Titilayo Saibu; David Wafula Yenjela; Shalini Nadaswaran; Marquita M. Gammage; Jane Bellemore; Terry Ryan; Miglena Ivanova; Lydia Brugué Botia; Auba Llompart Pons; Andrew Howe; Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni
Summary
This collection discusses the depictions of mothers-in-law in popular culture and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law.
