"Self-Fashioning": Female Chinese International Students Navigating United States Campuses

Gender studies in Western institutions of higher education tend to focus on the deficiencies of female students in adjusting to new cultures compared to their international students' ways of self-fashioning and the opportunities it brings lens to conduct detailed interviews, this study shifted the lens of focusing on international students self-fashioned as they navigated the U.S. higher education students' stories: their "self-fashioning" helps them (1) sophistically navigate the U.S. system better, (2) tactically fit into the new U.S. society, and (3) adaptively of this study.