The Myth of Womanness

Butler says that the only way subjects appear is via a very specific regimen of authority, or within the kind of Foucaultian paradigm. So it's not as though they're born into womanness naturally, because even the idea of womanness is a rather new concept. She uses Kafka for this, one of Kafka's texts dealing with the idea of being before the law. But we don't necessarily need to just take this as a kind of philosophical critique to propose that there's nothing that comes before culture itself.