I happened upon Edyta Just near the end of the third day of Women's Worlds 2011 in July, in the hall where she was sitting at a table with books from the European ATGENDER association. She was presenting at the conference the next day, on a panel entitled, "Teaching with Gender: Asian and European Perspectives."

She expressed an interest in learning how to attract more students into Gender/Women's/Feminist Studies during our interview. She complained about the misconceptions about the field, "those crazy feminists that want to send all the men to hell," and how once people become familiar with it those misconceptions fade away and are replaced with a new process of learning.

By far the most profound and stubbornly persistent of the many misconceptions that have prevented a clear and rational understanding of one of history’s most important thinkers is of Marx’s attitude toward nature and the environment. It has long been held that, if he devoted any thought to it at all, Marx ruthlessly subordinated environmental concerns to his vision of humanity’s inevitable economic progress.