This book is a comprehensive study of some ways of treating the subject that demonstrate new and unusual perspectives, and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law; and that further address these works as popular culture; and as texts in their own right from within the framework of literary theory; and as works that demonstrate the ability to reach and connect with, and satisfy, both the general reader, the student, and the scholar, from all levels and walks of life.

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 Berns, Leonardo Acosta Lando, Diego Foronda, Martina Lipton, Zoly Rakotoniera, Hugh Craig, Jo May