New Man
See also: Newman
English
Alternative forms
Noun
- A man who, rejecting sexist attitudes and traditional conceptions of masculinity, aims to be caring and sensitive, and to take a substantial role in the domestic routine.
- 1999, Anthony McMahon, Taking Care of Men: Sexual Politics in the Public Mind, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 104:
- 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 a New Man.
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
- alta-male
- novus homo
- snag (“sensitive new age guy”)
Further reading
- “New Man”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “New Man”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “New Man” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “the new man”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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