New Man

See also: Newman

English

Alternative forms

• new man

Noun

New Man (plural New Men)

1. 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

• new lad

Related terms

• New Woman

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.

Anagrams

• Newnam, Wenman