Project Gutenberg 2014-09-29 Public domain in the USA. 220 Besant, Annie 1847 1933 Besant, Annie Wood Wood, Annie Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be: A Plea for Reform Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by the Internet Archive "Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be: A Plea for Reform" by Annie Besant is a socio-political treatise written in the late 19th century. The book critiques the existing marriage laws and their oppressive impact on women, advocating for reform to achieve equality in marriage. Besant argues that the legal framework surrounding marriage treats women as property, stripping them of their rights and agency. The opening of the work outlines historical and philosophical perspectives on human rights, highlighting the ongoing struggle for women to attain the same rights as men. Besant discusses the evolution of marriage from a coercive and transactional institution in barbaric societies to its current state, where women still face significant legal inequalities within marriage. She attacks this system as a relic of the past, arguing that it perpetuates control and subjugation, thus calling for both legal and societal reforms to recognize marriage as a partnership of equals, devoid of the hierarchical structure that currently exists. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 45.7 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Marriage -- Great Britain Marriage law -- Great Britain HQ Text Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Sociology Category: Politics 185948 2025-07-19T04:31:12.285005 text/html 162742 2024-10-24T11:09:13 text/html 159975 2025-07-19T04:31:18.568967 application/epub+zip 161937 2025-07-19T04:31:15.764992 application/epub+zip 123465 2025-07-19T04:31:14.543007 application/epub+zip 390437 2025-07-19T04:31:20.640997 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 378052 2025-07-19T04:31:17.782974 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278930 2022-09-21T11:04:38.259131 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 164118 2025-07-19T04:31:11.866004 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 144234 2024-10-24T11:09:13 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17609 2025-07-19T04:31:20.772961 application/rdf+xml 24465 2025-07-19T04:31:15.026990 image/jpeg 4645 2025-07-19T04:31:14.784980 image/jpeg 161741 2025-07-19T04:31:12.300010 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia