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New Woman
The New Woman: feminist ideal and cultural figure of the 1880s-1890s English fiction, coined by Sarah Grand and Ouida in 1894, an educated, independent, bicycling woman who challenged Victorian marriage and influenced global feminism.
Next of kin
Next of kin means the people with the nearest legally acknowledged relation to someone, notified after death and often asked to make basic decisions on their behalf.
Nice guy
Nice guy: a kind, agreeable man, subject of the "nice guys finish last" proverb from Leo Durocher's 1946 baseball remark, and internet slang for a man expecting sex for kindness; studied in dating, income, and power research.
Niece and nephew
Niece and nephew are English kinship terms for a sibling's daughter and son, from Latin neptis and nepos via Old French; both once meant grandchild before narrowing in the 1600s; second-degree relatives sharing about 25% of DNA; gender-neutral term nibling.
Nikah mut'ah (نكاح المتعة)
Nikah mut'ah (نكاح المتعة), or sigheh, is a fixed-term temporary marriage contract lawful in Twelver Shi'i (Ja'fari) law but void in Sunni law. Both traditions agree it was permitted in early Islam; they dispute whether Muhammad or Caliph Umar prohibited it. It is legally recognized in Iran.
Nilza Iraci
Nilza Iraci is a Brazilian Black feminist, a founding member of Geledés – Instituto da Mulher Negra, nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize campaign.
Nina Dyer
Nina Dyer (Nina Sheila Dyer, 1930-1965), Anglo-Indian fashion model and Pierre Balmain favorite; married Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza then Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; died by suicide in 1965.
Nina Rindt
Nina Rindt (née Lincoln, born 1943), Finnish fashion model, wife of Jochen Rindt; timed his laps from the pit wall, was widowed at Monza in 1970, and accepted the only posthumous F1 championship trophy.
Nipple clamp
Nipple clamp: a pressure device placed on the nipple or areola for consensual erotic and BDSM sensation play. Types include adjustable screw, clover, magnetic, weighted, and suction clamps; removal is more intense than application.
Nísia Floresta
Nísia Floresta was the pseudonym of Dionísia Gonçalves Pinto (1810–1885), a Brazilian educator, poet, travel writer, and feminist generally identified as the pioneer of feminism in Brazil.
NOH8 Campaign
NOH8 Campaign, a photographic silent protest founded by Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley in 2008 against California Proposition 8; duct-taped mouths, NOH8 cheek paint, 56,000+ portraits, 501(c)(3).
Non-binary gender
Non-binary gender (nonbinary): umbrella term for gender identities outside or between male and female, covering both, fluid, or no gender identities. Covers terminology, prevalence (about 20% of trans people; 5% of US young adults), ICD-11 changes, health, and legal recognition status.
Non-monogamy
Non-monogamy (ethical or consensual non-monogamy, CNM) covers polyamory, open relationships, swinging, and polyfidelity: multi-partner arrangements by explicit consent. Research finds satisfaction roughly equal to monogamy, with rising US interest and partial legal recognition.
Non-penetrative sex
Non-penetrative sex, or outercourse, is sexual activity without penetration of vagina, anus, or mouth. Covers definitions, practices, pregnancy and STI risks, risk-reduction guidance, and therapeutic uses.
Nonresistance
Nonresistance is a pacifist stance refusing all force to resist evil, rooted in Christian teaching and the peace churches. Distinct from nonviolent resistance and pacifism broadly, it is now studied alongside civil resistance success-rate debates.
Nonviolence
Nonviolence, or civil resistance, is waging social and political conflict without physical violence, via protest, noncooperation, and intervention; Gene Sharp catalogued 198 methods, and Chenoweth and Stephan found nonviolent campaigns about twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.
Nonviolent resistance
Nonviolent resistance: struggle against oppression without physical violence, using strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and satyagraha as developed by Gandhi; Chenoweth and Stephan's NAVCO data show nonviolent campaigns succeed about twice as often as violent ones.
Noof Al Maadeed
Noof Al Maadeed (نوف المعاضيد), Qatari women's rights defender who fled to the UK in 2019, campaigned against male guardianship, returned to Qatar in 2021, and has not spoken publicly since March 2023.
Normalization of antisemitism
Normalization of antisemitism: the process by which hostility toward Jews becomes accepted in mainstream discourse, distinct from 'normalization of the Jews' (Jewish emancipation). Documented via ADL, EU, and US National Strategy data on online hate, campuses, and political rhetoric.
North American Man/Boy Love Association
North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), US pedophile advocacy group founded in Boston in 1978 after the Revere sex scandal; advocates adult sexual behavior with male children, opposes age-of-consent laws, widely reviled and largely defunct.
North Korean nationalism
North Korean nationalism is the state-sponsored nationalism of the DPRK, built on juche (self-reliance), the Kim family cult, and anti-colonial legacy; it shifted in 2023-24 to a two-hostile-states doctrine abandoning unification.
NotAllMen
#NotAllMen is a Twitter hashtag, first used in 2009, by which men object to perceived generalizations about male violence; it rose in 2014 after the UCSB shooting, prompting the counter-hashtag #YesAllWomen, and resurged in 2021 after Sarah Everard's murder.
Notes on Being a Man
Notes on Being a Man (2025) by Scott Galloway, NYU professor and Pivot podcast cohost, is a Simon & Schuster memoir-advice book proposing a protect, provide, procreate code of masculinity and surplus value for boys and men in crisis.
Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse: 1 November 2024 disaster in Serbia in which a renovated concrete canopy fell at 11:52, killing 16; caused most likely by corroded prestressing wires, it triggered Serbia's largest student-led anti-corruption protests and indictments of 13 people including ex-minister Goran Vesic.
Ntokozo Mayisela
Ntokozo Mayisela (Ntokozo kaMayisela Zulu), queen consort and first wife of Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini; civil marriage May 2021, lobola of eight cows and R50,000, two children, 2025 interdict and later reconciliation.
Nuclear family
The nuclear family, also known as a conjugal or elementary family, is a family unit of one or two parents and their children, the smallest family structure.
Nudity and protest
Nudity and protest: deliberate public nakedness as a political tactic, from the 1903 Doukhobor marches and 1929 Igbo Women's War to Manipur 2004, Uganda, FEMEN, and the World Naked Bike Ride.
Nudity and sexuality
Nudity and sexuality covers how cultures link the unclothed body to sexual meaning: naturism, Elias's civilizing process, the artistic nude, US nudity law, body-image research, and digital consent.
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges, formerly Obergefell v. Wymyslo, is the June 2015 US Supreme Court decision, 5 to 4, requiring states to allow and recognize same-sex marriage.
Object sexuality
Object sexuality (objectum sexuality, objectophilia) is a sexual orientation involving romantic and sexual attraction to inanimate objects such as bridges or the Berlin Wall; research links it to autism and object-personification synaesthesia, and it is not a DSM-5 or ICD-11 diagnosis.