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In 2018, Tine Claes received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) to research the perception of infertility and unwanted childlessness from the 1950s onwards. As a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, with funding from the FWO, she focused on the recent history of infertility and unwanted childlessness.
To get a clear picture of personal experiences, she chose oral history as her research method. After all, unwanted childlessness is a taboo subject that is rarely documented in archives. She conducted more than a hundred interviews with wishing parents and fertility doctors of different generations, capturing valuable stories and insights.
Her second monograph, Zaad zonder naam: a biography of the sperm bank (Lannoo), was published in 2022. That same year, a five-part podcast series was launched, based on re-recorded interviews.
Although this collection is not currently accessible, plans are under development to house it at the Belgian archival institution AVG Carhif.
