Sandilands' first book, The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy was published in 1999 by University of Minnesota Press.
[3][9] Sandilands invokes a multitude of contemporary feminist and political theorizations of democracy, including Donna Haraway's cyborg feminism.
"[10] In 2004, Sandilands co-edited the multidisciplinary anthology This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment with Melody Hessing and Rebecca Raglon.
"[2] It "advances her earlier work on ecofeminism, democracy and sexuality",[12] and explores "such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities".
[1] Sandilands has also written extensively on environment, society, culture and literature in publications such as The Guardian[13] and the Los Angeles Review of Books.