This special issue aims to foster an understanding of avant-garde movements in Ibero-America and highlight the key role that women played in the transnational avant-garde scene from the 1920s to the early twenty-first century. For many decades, the focus of avant-garde studies was mostly limited to a European and North American context. Recent studies, however, have highlighted the necessity of rethinking the avant-garde as an aesthetic and cultural project that manifested itself in various locations within and outside Europe. Per Bäckström and Benedikt Hjartarson have advocated for a "topographic turn" that will allow us to examine different facets of avant-garde aesthetics in regions that are "traditionally depicted as peripheral" (2014: 7). In a similar vein, James M. Harding and John Rouse have proposed a shift from the Eurocentric perspective and a reevaluation of the "unacknowledged cultural hybridity" of avantgarde movements (2006: 2). To achieve this objective, Ástráður Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska have suggested a close examination of "registers, stylistic forms, genres, participating agents and locations" that have contributed to the expansion of the avant-garde beyond the so-called "centers and peripheries" (2007: xi). Drawing on these theoretical perspectives, this special issue addresses the emergence of avant-garde movements in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Spain and argues that the inclusion of women in critical studies of the avant-garde will enrich our understanding of this movement and will open new avenues for theoretical reflection on its nature and scope.While this special issue builds on previous studies that have examined the avant-garde as a transnational and multifaceted phenomenon, it is also unique bezari and vélez olivera