When confronted with facts about the prevalence and severity of violence against women in its many forms, many people, not surprisingly, want “something” to be done to address it. In Section III of this book, contributors discuss a variety of programs and practices designed to prevent violence against women and to help those who have been victimized. But this activism is not new, as Gretchen Arnold and Jami Ake demonstrate in the their chapter, which opens Section I.