West Pinellas NOW Chapter Meeting

Date: Wednesday, Sept 23, 2026
Time: Dinner at 5:00; Meeting at 6:00 PM Location: Perkins Restaurant
2626 Gulf to Bay Blvd, Clearwater FL 33759 

Or join us virtualy at 6pm! https://meet.google.com/obt-anup-mwz

Topic:  How Misogynist Culture Weaponizes the Language of Femininity Against Women

Peggy Patty & Mary Mosley will give a historical overview of the harm that restrictive sex stereotypes have caused women and girls.

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Now about the Speakers:

Peggy Patty was a domestic violence attorney for low-income women for thirty years, practicing criminal and civil law across the State of Illinois. Also, as Director of the Legal Institute at the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence, she provided technical assistance to Illinois domestic violence shelters. In addition, she provided crucial violence-against-women training to judges and law enforcement statewide. Peggy is a 75-year-old lesbian. She’s been in many conversations over the past decades with young lesbians and women of other sexual orientations who have shared the profound damage that sexism and sex stereotypes have done to them, focusing on issues such as body image, pornography, and their life choices in many areas.


Mary Mosley grew up in Idaho. She received her PhD in Spanish and linguistics from the University of Missouri in 1976. She has taught Spanish language, literature, and culture at Westminster College, Shimer College in Illinois, Ohio State University, and William Woods University. In the 1980s she was an editor for the educational publisher Scott, Foresman and Co, where she edited and wrote Spanish textbooks. She later wrote a number of high school Spanish texts. She has been active in women’s organizations for many years in Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, and Idaho. In the 1990s she was president of the Missouri chapter of the National Organization for Women, and served on the national board of that organization for four years. She was Legislative Director of the Missouri Women’s Network for many years. Governor Carnahan appointed her to the Missouri Women’s Commission, where she served for 4 years. She retired from WWU and moved to Idaho in 2016, where she founded a chapter of the National Organization for Women in Boise, which is flourishing. She is immediate past president of the American Association of University Women of Idaho. She has two granddaughters, ages 6 and 9, whom she is teaching about feminism.