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Let's start by admitting that nobody can cover everything. Although Chomsky long has recognized that workers' councils aren't the be-all and end-all when it comes to "the elimination of structures of hierarchy and domination in the state system, the private economy, and much of social life" (Chomsky p. 151), it's clear that feminism has not been at the core of his thinking over the years. There are several obvious reasons why this is so. For one thing, he was born (male) in 1928. And towards the other end of the chronology, his rejection of essentialism put some of the "feminisms" most active in the academy outside his level of tolerance. (Mine, too.) See, for example, his comment about "incomprehensible gibberish" on page 217.
Another reason that may have kept feminism out of Chomsky's mainstream for a while is his (understandable) tendency to focus on "the big picture." Alice Klein (Klein, 2002), an admirer of Chomsky, nevertheless found his combination of "cinemascopic approach" (grounding current events in a broad sweep of time) and "barrage of historical detail soporific. The scale is epic, even as the dates, names, and indictments mount up. And until recently women's lives were not considered historic, much less epic. The division between public and private was also a wall between significance and insignificance, certainly in the eyes of most leftists I knew in the 1960s and early '70s.
I find it intriguing to speculate about the effects on Chomsky (and on everyone else, but, I can't help feeling, "even" on Chomsky) of that pesky "generic male." After all, he read and wrote and heard and steeped in it for the first four or five decades of his life. Not because he was sexist, but because that was the language. casey Miller and Kate Swift's 1977 book Words and Women included some amusing examples of times when the "generic" male revealed itself to be not so inclusive after all. In 1972, Erich Fromm described "man's vital interests" as "life, food, access to females, etc." And you don't even need to start with "mankind" to fall into the trap. A TV commentator (in 1974) said, "People won't give up power. They'll give up anything else first - money, home, wife, children - but...