The American Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Republic provided the paradigm change needed for viewing people as equal not only for the male revolutionaries but also women of the era. The exclusion of women from citizenship presented an opportunity to promote proto-feminist ideology among female intellectuals. In order to disguise their political ambitions, women intellectuals created the Republican Mother, which camouflaged female education and intellectuality with a less threatening cloak by confining education to the service of domesticity. Judith Sargent Murray, as one of the outstanding female intellectuals of the period, initially adopted performativity as a resistance tactic to hide feminist ambitions, and she used it within her essays with different techniques such as hiding the meaning between the lines and contradicting her sharp argument by reproducing stereotypical public man and private woman binaries. The work of Murray and the Republican Mothers helped to dismantle a more than two thousand-year-old tradition of excluding women from the political sphere, and it helped build a foundation for women’s enfranchisement a century later.