Dressed Like a Man? Of Language, Bodies, and Monsters in the Trial of Enrique/Enriqueta Favez and Its Contemporary Accounts
In 1823 one of the most scandalous trials of the nineteenth century took place in Santiago de Cuba. A year earlier a housekeeper named Rosa Suarez walked into the bedroom of her master – a well-known and respected Swiss doctor – in order to help him undress and get into bed because she feared he…