To her left stands her daughter, Princess Diana, a mannequin dressed as Wonder Woman: a golden tiara on top of a black wig a red bustier embossed with an American eagle, its wings spread to form the letters “WW” a blue miniskirt with white stars bracelets that can stop bullets a golden lasso strapped to her belt and, on her feet, super-kinky knee-high red boots. On a ten-foot-wide stage whose backdrop depicts ancient Greece-the Parthenon atop the Acropolis-Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons, a life-size mannequin wearing sandals and a toga, sits on a throne. Wonder Woman backpacks hang from hooks sleeping bags are rolled up on a shelf. A cardboard stand holds Pez dispensers, red, topped with Wonder Woman’s head. There are Wonder Woman lunchboxes, face masks, coffee mugs, a Frisbee, napkins, record-players, T-shirts, bookends, a trailer-hitch cover, plates and cups, pencils, kites, and, near the floor, a pressed-aluminum cake mold, her breasts like cupcakes. It contains more than four thousand objects. The Wonder Woman Family Museum occupies a one-room bunker beneath a two-story house on a hilly street in Bethel, Connecticut. Wonder Woman, introduced in 1941, was a creation of utopian feminism, inspired by Margaret Sanger and the ideals of free love.
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