A revaluation of the significance of the Filipino national hero's (Jose Rizal's) discourse on freedom, human rights, and national liberation centering on the liberation of women and its ramifications in the total emancipation of a nation-people from colonial barbarism, imperial subjugation, and patriarchal hegemony. This supplements the essays of the author in RIZAL IN OUR TIME (revised edition) published by Anvil Publishing Inc., Manila, Philippines, in 2011.