Gina Masucci MacKenze is the Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor of English at Holy Family University, USA, and author of The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett and Sondheim (2008). She is an associate editor of The American Book Review, and advisory editor for drama for The Journal of Modern Literature.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Missing Mothers.- Chapter 3: The Overbearing Mother.- Chapter 4: The Inconsequential Mother.- Chapter 5: The New Mother.

Gina Masucci MacKenze is the Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor of English at Holy Family University, USA, and author of The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett and Sondheim (2008). She is an associate editor of The American Book Review, and advisory editor for drama for The Journal of Modern Literature.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Missing Mothers.- Chapter 3: The Overbearing Mother.- Chapter 4: The Inconsequential Mother.- Chapter 5: The New Mother.

Gina Masucci MacKenze is the Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor of English at Holy Family University, USA, and author of The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett and Sondheim (2008). She is an associate editor of The American Book Review, and advisory editor for drama for The Journal of Modern Literature.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Missing Mothers.- Chapter 3: The Overbearing Mother.- Chapter 4: The Inconsequential Mother.- Chapter 5: The New Mother.