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The article underlines the contribution of Camille Lacoste-Dujardin, Senior Researcher at the CNRS, ethnologist specialized on Kabyle society, to the analysis of the status and role of women in North-African societies. Her book “Mothers against women” shows the centrality of the feminine component in the patriarchal North-African system inside which the keepers of masculine domination are mothers. Her research draws the image of an ideological and social system that, even weakened by Modern society, locks individuals in which individual freedom has no place. Camille Lacoste-Dujardin shows that patriarchal society and its collorary gender segregation is contradictory to the individual blossoming of women and that islamist ideology is a channel of this familial system of masculine domination. Her work reminds the crucial role of mothers in the transmission of submission or equality values to their daughters.