Annie Besant, a British socialist, theosophist, and women's rights activist in her book "Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be: A Plea for Reform" explains the idea of human rights as viewed in marriage before, in the present age, and how it ought to be. She discusses the limitation of the law as it views marriage in terms of gender without equality in its distribution of judgment in marriage. This book focuses on marriage and is a call for reform regarding this concept across Great Britain.