Identity, Ethos, and Community: Rhetorical Dimensions of Secular Mommy Blogs

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2015-06-17
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Virginia Tech
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This study examines secular mommy bloggers, a group of women who blog about the difficulties of being a nonbeliever parent in a predominantly religious society. In this study, I explore the rhetorical dimensions of four separate blogs by investigating how each mother builds identity within her personal blog and how her sense of identity enables her to construct individual ethos. Furthermore, I illustrate how the individual ethos of each blogger contributes to a group ethos representing the entire secular parenting community. Ultimately, I show how these mothers rhetorically set themselves apart from other nonbeliever/secular groups.

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Atheism, Secularism, Motherhood, Blogging, Feminist Theory
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