the body. The genre of theory includes works of anthropology. art history, film studies, gender studies, linguistics. philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, science studies, social and intellectual history and sociology The works in question are tied to arguments in these fields, but they become 'theory because their visions or arguments have been suggestive or productive for people who are not studying those discipline Works that become theory offer accounts others can use about meaning, nature and culture. the functioning of the psyche. the relations of public to private experience and of larger historical forces to individual experience.