Matters were worst in Kabylia, where conditions for women were the most inequitable in all the Maghreb. Although permitted the superficial privilege of freedom to walk about unveiled, with inheritance limited strictly to the male a repudiated Kabyle wife could be turned out of her husband's house, deprived of her children and the dowry which her father had put up at the time of marriage, and forbidden by her divorcing husband to marry again — or allowed to do so only upon payment of a certain sum.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1231