Civilized WomenCivilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking among the Glebo people of Cape Palmas, in southeastern Liberia. Like other Liberians, the Glebo people make a social distinction between western educated wage earners, or "civilized people," and traditional subsistence agriculturists, or "natives." The civilized native dichotomy splits the Glebo community and Liberian society in general,