E. Kitch Yara

E. Kitch Childs (an haife ta a ranar 11 ga watan Afrilu, na shekara ta 1937 - 10 ga Janairu, 1993) Masaniyar ilimin halayyar dan adam ce ta Amurka kuma mai fafutuka 'yan mata da akafi sani da shiga cikin yunkurin' yancin mata a Arewacin Amurka da kuma ba da shawara ga mata marasa rinjaye, karuwanci, gays da lesbian.  Ta kasance memba mai kafa Jami'ar Chicago's Gay Liberation  kuma mace ta farko ta Afirka ta Amurka da ta sami digiri na biyu a Ci gaban Dan Adam a Jami'ar Birnin Chicago. 

## Ilimi
Childs ta halarci Jami'ar Pittsburgh, kuma ta kammala karatu tare da digiri na farko a fannin ilmin sunadarai. Ta kasance mai basira sosai a fannin ilimi har ta cimma wannan a lokacin da take matashiya. Daga baya, Childs za ta halarci Jami'ar Chicago kuma ta sami Jagoran Kimiyya a Ci gaban Dan Adam a shekarar 1972. Ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin matan Afirka na farko da suka sami digiri na biyu daga Jami'ar Chicago, kuma a ci gaban ɗan adam.

## Ayyuka
Bayan kammala karatunta, Childs ta shiga rundunar sojan ruwa ta Amurka. A shekara ta 1973, ta fara aikinta na farko a CaliforniaOakland, California inda ta yi aiki a matsayin likitan halayyar asibiti na tsawon shekaru 17 kafin ta kawo aikinta zuwa Amsterdam a shekarar 1990, inda ta wuce a 1993. Childs ta kasance majagaba a fagen ilimin halayyar dan adam, kasancewar tana ɗaya daga cikin masu warkarwa na farko da suka gudanar da zaman magani a gidanta da kuma gidajen abokan cinikinta.Tare da wannan hanyar da sauransu, Childs ta yi niyyar tallafawa mata baƙar fata kuma, ƙari, mata baƙar gay ta hanyar "halicci tsarin magani inda abokan cinikinta za su ji an haɗa su".

## Ƙungiyar Mata a cikin Ilimin Halitta
Childs ta kasance memba mai kafa kungiyar Association for Women in Psychology (AWP).  Childs da kuma wadanda suka kafa ta biyu, Phyllis Chesler da Dorothy Riddle, sun kafa AWP don magance rashin bincike a cikin ilimin halayyar mata. Da farko AWP kungiya ce ta mata masu ilimin halayyar dan adam da masu fafutuka waɗanda suka ba da shawara a cikin Ƙungiyar Harkokin Halayyar Jama'a ta Amurka (APA) don magance korafin mata, masu ilimin halayen dan adam, da masu ba da shawara. Yara sun yi amfani da wannan dandamali don ba da shawara ga mata masu warewa, wato mata baƙar fata da 'Yan mata. Bugu da kari, ta yi kira ga APA da ta rinjayi canje-canje a hanyar da waɗannan rukunin ke bi da su a fannonin banki, magani, batutuwan shari'a, da tsarin ilimi. Ta fahimci cewa samun damar samun ingancin ayyukan ilimin halayyar dan adam yana samuwa ga waɗannan kungiyoyin da aka ware. Ayyukan da APA ta goyi bayan sun ware waɗannan mata kuma sun inganta zaɓuɓɓukan magani waɗanda suka kasance masu nuna bambancin jinsi kuma ba su goyi bayan binciken da ke gudana a cikin ilimin halayyar mata ba. A shekara ta 1973 AWP ta kammala isasshen bincike a cikin ilimin halayyar mata wanda ya zama sananne a matsayin "Division 35" na APA.

## Yunkurin fafutuka
Childs 'yar luwaɗi ce, kuma mai fafutuka a cikin wuraren da ba su da kyau, na mata da na baƙi. Ta yi kira ga kawar da karuwanci ta hanyar shiga cikin kungiyar kare hakkin ma'aikatan jima'i ta COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) da kuma kungiyoyin zamantakewar wariyar launin fata. Ta kasance memba na kafa Jami'ar Chicago's Chicago Lesbian Liberation tare da Vernita Gray da Michal Brody . A lokacin, an kira kungiyar kungiyar Women's Caucus of Chicago Gay Liberation . Kungiyar ta taimaka wajen shirya alfahari ta farko a Birnin Chicago a shekarar 1970. Ta ba da magani ga mutanen LGBT, musamman wadanda ke fama da cutar kanjamau.

An shigar da Childs cikin Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame a 1993. An ba da wannan girmamawa ne don nuna godiya ga kokarin da ta yi na rushe matsayin kungiyar American Psychiatric Association game da luwaɗi,  wanda aka jera a matsayin rikicewar tunani a cikin Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders har zuwa 1973.

## Littattafan wakilci

* Childs, E. K. (1966). *Ayyuka a cikin Ayyukan Soja: Binciken Littattafai* . Cibiyar Binciken Ra'ayi ta Kasa, Jami'ar Chicago.
* Childs, E. K. (1972). Tsinkaya na Sakamakon a cikin Ƙungiyoyin Gamuwa: Sakamakon a matsayin Ayyuka na Zaɓuɓɓukan Mutum (Rubuce-rubuce na Dokta, Jami'ar Chicago, Kwamitin Ci gaban Dan Adam).
* Childs, E. K. (1976). Annotated Bibliography on Prison Health Care. Shirin Lafiya na Fursunoni, Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta San Francisco.
* Childs, E. K. (1990). Magani, ka'idojin mata, da al'ummar launi tare da mai da hankali kan maganin mata baƙi. A cikin H. Lerman & N. Porter (Eds.), *Ka'idodin mata a cikin maganin kwakwalwa* (shafi na 195-203). &nbsp;Kamfanin wallafe-wallafen Springer . 

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