![Artist George Bellows's 1992 drawing, 'The Drunk.'](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/640px-The_Drunk.jpg?itok=K0pT8SeU)
"The Drunk," 1922
![DAVA services are run by the Department of Defense.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Advocates_aim_to_support_domestic_abuse_victims_150326-F-IT851-001_0.jpg?itok=fqF3ZU6P)
Domestic Abuse Victim Advocate (DAVA)
![Artist Joel Bergner's mural in Brooklyn, New York, entitled A Survivor's Journey.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06.Brookland.12thStreet.NE_.WDC_.6April2011_%285596781713%29.jpg?itok=7HhoVVgr)
Domestic Violence Awareness Mural
![This purple ribbon is donned to increase awareness about Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Prevention.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Purple_ribbon.png?itok=YgzBIXT7)
Purple Ribbon
![Part of the Temperance Movement's proposed ban on alcohol stemmed from the aspiration to stop the domestic abuse of women.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Temperance%20and%20DV.jpg?itok=E8CmIb_E)
The Temperance Movement, 1871
![Ohio's Pringle-Patric House is one of the first domestic violence shelters in the United States.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Pringle-Patric_House_1.jpg?itok=iwuyzuTD)
Pringle-Patric Shelter
![The Federal Violence Against Women Act of 1994 led to the creation of the Office on Violence Against Women.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Office_on_Violence_Against_Women_Seal_0.png?itok=_OBjeib9)
Office on Violence Against Women
![This illustration from France in 1845 is characteristic of the longstanding and widespread views of male violence to women.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Grandville_Cent_Proverbes_page69_1.png?itok=rI-ZuwlR)
JJ Grandville's 'Cent Proverbes,' 1845
![Ms. Magazine launched in 1971 as the brainchild of feminist activists Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/8ca2867e7541e7500600efcacf03fee0_0.jpg?itok=hSJ5AB4H)
Ms. Magazine
Ms. Magazine launched in 1971 as the brainchild of feminist activists Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. It started to appear on a monthly basis after 1972. (Photo provided by author).
![Members at a Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) meeting in 1924.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Natl.comm_.jpg?itok=v1FxiX8n)
Women's Christian Temperance Union Meeting, 1924
![This non-profit organization is stationed in Washington D.C.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/NNEDVlogo08.png?itok=xenb17tM)
National Network to End Domestic Violence
![The armed forces designed this poster to bring attention to domestic abuse.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/United_States_Military%2C_Domestic_Violence_Awareness_Month_Poster_September_2011.jpg?itok=Ax9VHp68)
Domestic Violence Awareness
![Many advertisements made light of issues of domestic violence, including this 1970 ad for Mr. Leggs.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/66_1.jpg?itok=9hQGC0iU)
'Mr. Leggs' Advertisement, 1970
![In addition to providing shelter for battered women, Women's Refuge Centers also began to publish extensively on issues affecting women in the home.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/28289-ap.jpg?itok=j3GaHreS)
Women's Refuge Centers
![The Spruce Run-Womancare Alliance was the first domestic violence project in Maine and the third in the country.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Screen%20Shot%202015-06-15%20at%208.54.23%20AM.png?itok=_dSq1za5)
Spruce Run-Womancare Alliance