title: Women and children first? The administration of Titanic relief in Southampton, 1912–59.
abstract: One of the principal narratives woven around the 1912 sinking of the Titanic is that the tragedy united people around the world in a shared sense of horror and grief. This study examines the administration of the relief fund collected for victims and questions the established image of social unity and collective suffering. The records of the Southampton Titanic Relief Fund reveal welfare processes imbued with class and gender prejudices that consigned many of the relatives of victims to poverty-stricken lives, despite the massive fund collected in their names.
authors.affiliation: University of New South Wales.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gregson
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004190:Disasters / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D004739:England / Q000208:ethnology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009026:Mortality / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D011287:Prejudice; D012066:Relief Work / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D012767:Ships / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D017741:Survivors / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D014930:Women / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology