Camilla Mørk Røstvik
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Camilla Mørk Røstvik is a Norwegian cultural historian and an associate professor of history at the University of Agder.[1]
Education and career
Røstvik earned a BA in art history from the University of Oslo in 2011. She earned an MA from the University of Manchester in 2012, and a PhD in art history from the University of Manchester in 2016.[2]
Prior to joining the History department at the University of Agder in 2022, Røstvik has worked at the University of St Andrews as a Leverhulme Research Fellow, where she was principal investigator for the project Arctic Periods: Transnational Knowledge about Menstrual History and Wellbeing,[3] and as of 2022, remains an Honorary Research Fellow in Art History there.[4] She has also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leeds[5], and as a Lecturer at University of Aberdeen.[6] Røstvik has been described as "a scholar with expertise in visual cultures and feminist art histories".[7]
Research on the history and industry of menstruation
Røstvik has specialised in the history of menstrual hygiene management through period pads, tampons, period underwear and apps. In an interview with Aftenposten she explained how the companies producing pads in the mid-twentieth century had to break taboos and reduce the shame of menstruation to convince women to buy their products.[8]
Trained as an art historian, Røstvik has a particular interest in the visual signs of menstruation. In an interview with Science Nordic, she explained: "Menstruation is a fantastic example of a visual sign that everybody knows of, but nobody ever sees. It is the red blood, which is very dramatic".[9] Røstvik has written about artists who create menstrual art, like Judy Chicago,[10] as well as about advertisements for menstruation products, which are another visible sign of menstruation in our culture.
Her book, Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation was published by UCL Press in 2022.[11] The book covers the industry of period products, with chapters discussing the promotion of "menstrual hygiene" through the sales of pads and tampons from the 1950s on, exploring the marketing of companies like Norwegian Saba, Swedish Mölnlycke, and the US company Proctor and Gamble. A chapter discusses how Tampax spread their brand to the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 1990s, and the 21st-century marketing of new period products like Thinx underwear and period tracking apps like Clue. The book has been featured in interviews with Røstvik by the Australian Broad Agenda[12], the Danish podcasting network Frihedsbrevet[13], and the Norweigan journal Kjønnsforskning.[14] It has been reviewed on the website Feminism in India[7]
Røstvik has published in Norwegian[15] and English. Røstvik is a member of the board of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, and the Principal Investigator of the Menstruation Research Network UK, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust (2022-2025).[16]
Research on the history of scientific publishing
Røstvik co-authored the book A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015.[17] This work builds upon research Røstvik and her collaborators have done over several years. She published the comment piece "How female fellows fared at the Royal Society" was published in Nature with Aileen Fyfe in 2018,[18] and has also published a paper on the history of how academic publishing became a for-profit business.[19]
References
- ↑ "Camilla Mørk Røstvik". Universitetet i Agder (in norsk). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ↑ "At the Edge of their Universe: Artists, Scientists and Outsiders at CERN | Research Explorer | The University of Manchester". www.research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ↑ "Arctic Periods: Transnational Knowledge about Menstrual History and Wellbeing | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen". www.abdn.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ↑ "Camilla Mork Rostvik - University of St Andrews". risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ↑ AHC. "Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik | School of Media and Communication | University of Leeds". ahc.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ↑ "Dr Camilla Rostvik | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen". www.abdn.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Pathak, Ananya; Pathak, Ananya (2022-10-21). "Can Menstruation Exist Outside Of A Capitalistic System?: Analysing Røstvik's Feminist Research". Feminism in India. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
- ↑ Skonseng, Anette (2022-03-07). "Fra flaut til frigjørende: Produktene som revolusjonerte kvinners (under)liv". Aftenposten (in norsk bokmål). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ↑ Müller, Elin Rekdal (2019-03-11). "Still embarrassing to talk about menstruation". sciencenordic.com. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
- ↑ Røstvik, Camilla Mørk (2019-12-03). "Blood Works: Judy Chicago and Menstrual Art Since 1970". Oxford Art Journal. 42 (3): 335–353. doi:10.1093/oxartj/kcz021.
- ↑ Røstvik, Camilla Mørk (2022). Cash Flow: The businesses of menstruation. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ↑ Gorman, Ginger; Gorman, Ginger (2022-06-14). "The capitalisation and secrecy of the menstrual industry". BroadAgenda. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ↑ Jensen, Mikkel (2022-08-01). "100 år med menstruationsprodukter: "Det er en erhvervshistorie, der bør fejres"". Frihedsbrevet (in dansk). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ↑ Bitsch, Anne (2022-06-21). "Bind, tamponger og mensapp har endret vårt syn på mensen". kjonnsforskning.no (in norsk bokmål). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ↑ Røstvik, Camilla Mørk (2018-11-16). "«Vi hadde ikke menstruasjon, vi hadde 'vondt i maven'»: Norske menstruasjonsopplevelser fra 1900-tallet". Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. 42 (4): 215–232. doi:10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2018-04-02. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ↑ "The Menstruation Research Network". Menstruation Research Network. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ↑ Fyfe, Aileen; Moxham, Noah; McDougall-Waters, Julie; Røstvik, Camilla Mørk (2022). A history of scientific journals : publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015. London: UCL Press. ISBN 978-1-80008-232-8. OCLC 1347000909.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ Fyfe, Aileen; Røstvik, Camilla Mørk (2018-03-06). "How female fellows fared at the Royal Society". Nature.
- ↑ Røstvik, Camilla Mørk (2017-09-06). "Publisering, penger og prestisje: Historien om hvordan akademisk publisering ble kommersialisert". Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (in norsk). 34 (3): 301–309. doi:10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2017-03-07. ISSN 0800-336X.
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