If the words “feminist thought exercise” don’t make you moist with anticipation of breathless minutes of fun, I don’t know what you’re doing reading this column. However, in the event that complex problems of gender and human rights don’t of themselves tickle your interest glands, consider this: all over the world, from eastern Europe to India, millions of baby girls are missing.
There is a gap in the census. It howls with the ghosts of girl-children who died young, or who never lived — tens of millions of potential human beings, neglected to death, murdered at birth or (in increasing numbers) terminated when an ultrasound scan showed that a woman was due to come into the world.
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