Marriage, as it was, as it is and as it should be

About this film

LibriVox recording of Marriage, as it was, as it is and as it should be by Annie Besant. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. In this short pamphlet, Annie Besant - a well-known British women's rights activist - lays down British marriage laws as they were at her time. She opposes the view of married women as mere property of their husbands, with virtually no rights of their own, and makes suggestions for the improvement of marriage law, footed on equality of the sexes. In the second part of the pamphlet, she advocates for a law governing full divorce, instead of only the separation of husband and wife the church was granting, unwillingly, if at all. Although the pamphlet was written in 1882, Besants views of equality of men and women in both marriage and divorce law are surprisingly modern. Her ideas of shared parenting in case of a divorce have not been realised until very recently.( Summary by Ava) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook…

Directors & creators

Annie Besant

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;marriage; family; divorce; relationships

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