The proposal to use the world trade order as a source of carrots and sticks for the pursuit of environmental objectives is based on three illusions.

About her cursed head, whose folds displaid / Were stretcht now forth at length without entraile.

Other substances that are environmentally suspect are additives containing chlorine, phthalates, anti-fungals and CFKs. The environmental hazard of additives might become manifest during processing, but are particularly so at the waste stage, when the products are dumped or incinerated.

In the place of the paradoxical phallocentrism Gather offers in that novel, the epilogue of Sapphim and the Slave Girl posits a vaginocentrism that refutes as strongly as phallocentrism the androgynous sexuality posited by Phyllis Robinson as the outcome of Cather's concern with sexuality.