Whatever you think about The Help, at least it's sparked a larger conversation about domestic workers' lives — and maybe even their rights.

My period came today. The cramps are...bad. In fact, they're worse than they were even just last month, because a few weeks ago, I made a choice that increasing numbers of young, childless American women share: I got an IUD.

Barbara Ehrenreich asks, "has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult?" In other words, are women so concerned with access to mammograms that they're ignoring science and even their own rights?

Last week, Barbara Ehrenreich took self-help guru Marcus Buckingham to task for his ideas about women's happiness. Now he's all over Business Week, telling women how to enjoy their lives and careers, so we decided to take a closer look.

According to Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-Sided, the much-vaunted "power of positive thinking" won't cure cancer, make us rich, or necessarily even keep us happy. In fact, it may be harming us.

In an LA Times editorial, Barbara Ehrenreich writes that all the hue and cry over modern women's unhappiness may be just a ploy to sell us self-help.

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which means our public spaces are bedecked with so many pink ribbons, it looks like a 4-year-old interior decorator named Emily got a contract to do the whole country. It's a little much.

Barbara Ehrenreich is looking through a half-empty glass in her new book, Bright-Sided, which takes a critical look at America's culture of positive thinking and explains how this seemingly innocuous coping tactic is actually damaging our society.