Includes bibliographical references.

A cultural appraisal of the significance of the role of the mother-in-law among the Yoruba people of Nigeria / Cecilia Alero Titilayo Saibu -- Mother-in-law soap opera : redefining the mother-in-law, redesigning the Kenyan nation / Wafula David Yenjela -- Oppressor or oppressed : the m(other)-in-law in Nigerian women's literature / Shalini Nadaswaran -- Stereotyped representations of the black mother-in-law in reality television shows : a critical analysis / Marquita Gammage -- The mother-in-law in Latin literature and Roman society / Jane Bellemore and Terry Ryan -- Exclusive intimacies : creating mothers-in-law in Japanese literature and film / Miglena (Maggie) Ivanova -- Ogresses, 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 -- Cold springs : cinematic portraits of Sara Roosevelt / Andrew Howe -- The 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 -- "The worst person I know" : representations of the mother-in-law in British popular entertainment / Martina Lipton -- Dorothy Cannell's How to murder your mother-in-law : women, sisterhood and feminism / Zoly Rakotoniera.

"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"--