" What is performed in drag is of course, the sign of gender, a sign that is not the same as the body that it figures, but that cannot be read without it. The sign, understood as a gender imperative -girl! - reads less as an assignment than as a command and, as such, produces its own subordinations.” (Butler 247)

Judith Butler describes how genders are acted out, how we respond to situations is a result of our coaching in the roles in which we perform. She brings in the idea of drag as a metaphor, people who dress in drag are acting or performing the roles of the opposite sex, the sex that was not ascribed to them at birth. Butler goes on to say that through the performance of our sexes, women are subservient and subordinate to men as their role has been played for centuries.
Cixous feels that the roles ascribed to women, who are subservient in relation to men is reflected in literature, and institutes this way of thinking through out generation. Cixous problem is that literature is validating that notion that men are different and better than women.
Irigaray, in my opinion, feels that there may not be a difference that makes women less or more valuable then men, but she does observe that there is something different between the sexes. “I shall never take the place of man, never will man take mine. Whatever identifications are possible, one will never exactly fill the place of the other- the one is irreducible to the other”. Her title Subjective gender coincides with her opinion, the differences between the sexes is intrinsic, one can not judge the other unless they have traveled in the other shoes, faced their experiences, or seen the world from their point of view.