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New Man
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Newman
English
Alternative forms
en new man
Noun
New Men New Man
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.
en Anthony McMahon Taking Care of Men: Sexual Politics in the Public Mind 1999 Cambridge University Press 104 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZI6OvLdGYqsC&lpg=PA103&dq=new%20man&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false 978-0-521-58820-1 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
en new lad
Related terms
en New Woman
See also
en alta-male
en novus homo
en macho
en snag sensitive new age guy
Further reading
the new man
Anagrams
en aemnnw Newnam Wenman
en Feminism Male People