New Man

See also:Newman

English

Alternative forms

• new man

Noun

NewMan(pluralNew Men)

1. A man who, rejectingsexistattitudesand traditional conceptions ofmasculinity,aims to becaringandsensitive,and to take asubstantialrolein thedomesticroutine.
   • 1999,Anthony McMahon,Taking Care of Men: Sexual Politics in the Public Mind,Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page104:

     When [Norman] Schwartzkopf shed a public tear for the Americans killed, wounded and captured in the 1990–91 Gulf War, he was roundly praised as aNew Man.

Derived terms

• new lad

Related terms

• New Woman

See also

• alta-male
• novus homo
• snag(“sensitive new age guy”)

Further reading

• “New Man”,inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
• “New Man”,inCambridge English Dictionary,Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press,1999–present.
• “New Man”inLongman Dictionary of Contemporary English,Longman.
• “the new man”,inCollins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Newnam,Wenman